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HISTORY
IE FAMILY OF SCROPE.
F the literature of this country be compared
with that of France of Italy, it will be
found extremely defective in Memoirs of
eminent families; and a foreigner might be
induced to suppose, either that no materials
could be discovered for works of that nature,
or that the deeds of the ancient Nobility of
the British Empire were unworthy of com-
memoration. Such an inference would,
■ •\ve\eT, \k erroneous. The national annals abound in notices
r the prowess and talents of the ancestors of the greater part of
:lie Peers and Gentry of the kingdom, and the public muniments,
;is well as, in some cases, the archives of individuals, afford highly
valuable Historical and Biographical information.
Whatever tends to produce noble actions ; whatever creates a
love of country, of fame, of honour, and of public or private
virtue, is preeminently deserving of attention ; and if it be con-
ceded that a knowledge of the services which our forefathers have
rendered to the world stimulates their descendants to imitate
thcni, or if their errors or vices serve as beacons, the value of
family history must be admitted. In many instances, too, Bio-
VOL. II. B
{
THE
CONTROVERSY
BETWEEN
SIR RICHARD SCROPE
AND
SIR ROBERT GROSVENOR
Sfn tj^e iltoun of <2(j^ibalrs,
A.D. MCCCLXXXV— MCCCXC.
VOL. 11.
CONTAINING
A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF SCROPE,
AND
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE DEPONENTS.
BY
SIR N. HARRIS NICOLAS, K.H.
MDCCC XXXII.
/
JV^'?
LON DON :
PRINTED IIT SAMVBl BENTLET,
Donct Street, Fleet Straet
ADVERTISEMENT.
Upon delivering the first and second volumes of the Scrope
AND Grosvenor Roll, some remarks are necessary in relation to
their contents ; and in explanation, as well of the delay in the
appearance of the work, as of the Editor'^s intentions respecting
the remainder. It was originally expected that the Roll and
Illustrations would be comprised in two volumes; but in conse-
quence of the extent of the Biographical Notices of the Depo-
nents, a third volume has been found necessary ; and as some
further time is required for its completion, it is thought advisa-
ble to put the Subscribers in possession of so much of the work
as is ready.
The First Volume contains a literal copy of the Roll, together
with documents illustrative of the suit, and Notes explanatory
of the chasms which occur in parts of the original record ; whence
it appears that the Depositions of nearly sixty persons in favour
of Sir Robert Grosvenor, the Exceptions tendered by each party,
and the Judgment of the Court, are lost. The purport of its
Sentence, and the final decision of the King, may, however, be
learnt from the short abstract of the proceedings, which is printed
from a manuscript in the Harleian Collection. It is intended to
prefix to the first volume a History of the Controversy, with
abstracts of the pleadings; and also notices of several similar
trials. This, as well as Title-pages and the Preface, will be deli-
vered with the third volume.
iv ADVERTISEMENT.
The Second Volume is complete, with the exception of the
Title-page. It contains a History of the House of Scrope down
to the reign of Henry the Fourth, including Memoirs of every
Member of it who was mentioned by the Deponents in 1386 ; and
is accompanied by Pedigrees of the two great branches of Bolton
and Masham. The History of the Scrope Family is followed by
Biographical Notices of upwards of two hundred of the Deponents
in favour of Sir Richard Scrope, with translations of the material
parts of their depositions.
The Third Volume will contain Biographical Notices of the
remainder of the Deponents on behalf of Sir Richard Scrope,
commencing with Sir Henry Percy, the renowned " Hotspur ;*"
which will be succeeded by a History of the House of Grosvenor,
and Notices of all the Witnesses who gave their testimony in
favour of Sir Robert Grosvenor, on a similar plan to that of the
second volume. To this will be added. Notes illustrative of the
Historical events, and of the various other circumstances men-
tioned by the Deponents ; and a General Index.
In explanation of the delay which has attended the publica-
tion of the Work, it must be observed that considerable time
was, in the first place, consumed in obtaining the office copy of
the Roll from the Tower, and in passing it through the Press,
in consequence of the careful manner in which the proofs were
obliged to be collated with the original, which in some parts is
much defaced ; and from the imperfect state of the latter part
of the record,^ the utmost attention was necessary to determine in
what order the membranes followed each other. It is, however,
on the contents of the Second Volume that the Editor mainly
relies for his excuse in not having before placed any part of the
work in the hands of the Subscribers. The extreme labour of
' See vol. i. page 359.
ADVERTISEMENT. V
collecting materials for the lives, and even of identifying persons
who lived in the fourteenth century, is well known to all who
are acquainted with Biographical and Antiquarian literature.
Of the far greater part of the Deponents no attempt had been
before made to give even the slightest account; hence every
thing respecting them has been gleaned from numerous sources,
consisting principally of Chronicles, Records, and Manuscripts;
and when it is remembered that most of the Chronicles are un-
indexed, and that the information to be derived from records
and manuscripts is scattered over various repositories, an idea
may be formed of the difficulty of collecting facts for the me-
moirs of nearly four hundred persons who lived at the period in
question. Laborious, however, as the task has proved, it has been
lightened by the cordial and zealous co-operation of two or three
members of the Committee, and other friends, whom the Editor
will hereafter have occasion more particularly to mention. He
cannot, however, here omit to acknowledge the extraordinary zeal
and attention of Mr. Samuel Bentley, firom whom he has derived
most valuable assistance, and from whose press the work has
emanated. The Editor was farther cheered by the gratifying
reflection that these volumes will rescue many of the heroes from
oblivion whose prowess at Cressy, Poictiers, Najara, and various
other celebrated battles, renders the history of the reign of Edward
the Third the brightest page in the annals of British chivalry,
and laid the foundation of the military renown of this country.
To the fate of such men as these few can be indifierent, nor
can any trouble be deemed too great to perpetuate their fame ;
and as the inquiries which have been now made respecting them
tend at the same time to throw a strong light on the general his-
tory of the age in which they flourished, it is confidently hoped
that the Subscribers will not regret the delay, and that they will
be satisfied that the Editor's most zealous exertions, consistently
VI ADVERTISEMENT.
with his professional duties, have been used to fulfil his engage-
ment. He flatters himself, too, that the perusal of these volumes
may induce them to extend their indulgence to him in the pro-
duction of the third and concluding one, which he trusts will be
completed early in the ensuing year.
N. HARRIS NICOLAS.
March lOth, 183S.
THE IMPRESSION IS LIMITED, AND NO COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED
FOR SALE.
HISTORY
OF
THE FAMILY OF SCROPE.
HISTORY
THE FAMILY OF SCROPE.
however, be
F the literature of this country be compared
with that of France or Italy, it will be
found extremely defective in Memoirs of
eminent families; and a foreigner might be
induced to suppose, either that no materials
could be discovered for works of that nature,
or that the deeds of the ancient Nobility of
the British Empire were unworthy of com-
memoration. Such an inference would,
The national annals abound in notices
of the prowess and talents of the ancestors of the greater part of
the Peers and Gentry of the kingdom, and the public muniments,
as well as, in some cases, the archives of individuals, alFord highly
valuable Historical and Biographical information.
M'hatever tends to produce noble actions ; whatever creates a
love of country, of fame, of honour, and of public or private
virtue, is preeminently deserving of attention ; and if it be con-
ceded that a knowledge of the services which our forefathers have
rendered to the world stimulates their descendants to imitate
them, or if their errors or vices serve as beacons, the value of
family history must be admitted. In many instances, too, Bio-
VOL. II. B
2 HISTORY OF THE
graphy not only illustrates General History, but throws a pleasing
light upon the most interesting events.
Among the numerous Baronial families which formerly possessed
great influence in England, that of LE SCROPE, or SCROPE,
stands conspicuous. Though some of their titles are now dormant,
and others extinct, few persons were more distinguished in the
fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, and Shakespeare has
given immortality to no less than three individuals of the name.*
The House of Scrope was ennobled in two branches, Scrope op
Bolton, and Scrope op Masham and Upsal, and its members
shared the glory of all the great victories of the middle ages.
An unbroken male descent from the Conquest, if not from the
time of Edward the Confessor, and the emphatic declaration of
the Earl of Arundel, which was corroborated by the statements
of the Abbot of Coverham, Sir Robert Roos of Ingmanthorp,
and many others in 1386, that the representative of the family
was descended from noble and generous blood of gentry and
ancient ancestry, who had always preserved their name and
" estate in dignity and honour," * as well as their alliances and
property, sufficiently attest their antiquity and importance ; whilst
the mere enumeration of the dignities which they attained be-
tween the reigns of Edward the Second and Charles the First,
proves the high rank they enjoyed. In the period of three hun-
dred years, during more than a century of which the Barony
of one branch was in abeyance, the House of Scrope produced
two Earls and twenty Barons,^ one Chancellor, four Treasurers,
and two Chief Justices of England; one Archbishop and two
Bishops; five Knights of the Garter, and numerous Bannerets,
the highest military Order in the days of Chivalry.
' See the plays of " Richard the Second," " Henry the Fourth," and " Henry
the Fifth."
* Depositions, page 164. See also particularly pages 97, 100, 101, 102, 103,
105, 121, 132, 138, 142, 182.
' Sir William Dugdale has included the Scropes among the Barons by Tenure,
from the circumstance of their having held Knights' fees in the time of Henry the
Second ; but it is almost certain that they did not enjoy the rank of Peers before
the reign of EdVard the Third.
FAMILY OF SCROPE. 3
In common with that of many of the most illustrious families in
this country, the early history of the House of Scrope is very ob-
scure. Doubts have been entertained whether it was of Norman or
Saxon origin; but the little evidence which is extant on the subject
justifies the opinion, that the first person who is recorded to have
borne the name of Scrupe or Scrope, was a native of Normandy.
A RICHARD SCRUPE was an extensive landed proprietor in Richard
' Scrupe
the reign of Edward the Confessor : he is stated in Doomsday Book
to have held various manors in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and
Shropshire, and is supposed to have built Richard^s Castle near
Ludlow, which became his principal residence.^ His property was
inherited by his son, Osborne Frrz Richard, and, together with
other lands, was in his possession at the time of the General Sur-
vey.* He was the ancestor of the family of Say of Richard's
Castle, which became extinct in the male line in the early part of
the thirteenth century.'
Strong as the presumption is, that an individual who held
lands in England under the Confessor must have been a Saxon, it
is by no means proof of the fact. The influx of Normans at Ed-
ward^s court, and the partiality which he manifested for them,
are well known ; and the historians of the period expressly assert
that Richard Scrupe was one of the King^s foreign favourites.
In the year 1052, Edward concluded a peace with his turbulent
* Nash's History of Worcestershire, i. 239, 240.
* " Terra Osbemi filii Ricardi.
" Osbemus fili* Ricardi Scnipe ten. de Rege Bertvne. Ricard* paf ei*
tenuit. Ibi ii hide geld'. In d'nio sunt ii car. & viii vilKi. iiii Bord. & fab.
& molinari* cu' ix car. & una car. plus posset ibi e'e. Ibi iiii servi & iiii
ancille & molin. redd, xxii 8um*as annone & x ac' p'ti. Silva i lew. I'g. & dimid.
& lat. I leuva. Valuit & val. xx solid.
" Isd' Osb'n» ten. Tameocberie. pat, ei» tenuit, Ibi in hide geld. In
d'nio e* i car. & xiiii int* vill'. & bord. cu' xii car. & adhuc ii car. plus ibi
possent e'e. Ibi ii servi.*'
Then follow the names of twelve other Manors, which were held by the said
Osbem Fitz Richard. Of these manors, Cuer and Carleton had belonged to his
father. Hane — Sapie, — are stated thus: — Idem Osb'n. ten. Hane. Ipse tenuit.
Viz.— The same Osbem holds Hane : — the same held it.
' Dugdale's Baronage, i. 453.
b2
4 HISTORY OF THE
subject, Earl Godwin; immediately after which, the Normans,
who were accused of having ^^ instituted bad laws, and judged
unrighteous judgments,^ ^ were banished the realm. Most of them,
including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of Lon-
don and Lincoln, quitted the kingdom; but a few especial fa-
vourites of the King, whose conduct had not given oflTence, were
permitted to remain, and among these was Richard Fitz Scroby.^
In 1067, whilst William the Conqueror and the greater part of
his nobles were in Normandy, Fitz Scrob assisted the Castellan of
Hereford in subduing Edric, sumamed Silvaticus, who had re-
belled against the King.' It is extremely probable that this
Richard Fitz Scrob was a son of the Richard Scrupe mentioned
in Doomsday Book ; but the connection between him and the next
individual, who is known to have borne the name of Scrope,
cannot be traced. The Prior of Bardney, however, as well as
another monk of that Abbey, stated in 1386 that Richard Fitz
Scrob was the reputed ancestor of Sir Richard Scrope ; and
the proximity of Gloucestershire, in which Robert le Scrope
possessed three knights^ fees in the reign of Henry the Second, to
the counties of Worcester, Salop, and Hereford, in which Richard
Scrupe held property under the Confessor, as well as the iden-
tity of name, afford support to that opinion. It was objected,
by Sir Robert Grosvenor, that this statement was contradicted
by most of the other Deponents, who asserted that Sir Richard
Scrope'^s ancestor accompanied the Conqueror into England;*
but probably all which was meant was, that the Scropes were of
Norman extraction, and came to this country about the time of
the Conquest.
* Saxou ChroDicle, by Ingram, p. 239.
* " Except so many as they concluded it was agreeable to the King to have with
him, who were true to him and his people." Saxon Chronicle, p. 239 ; an ancient
Chronicle in Bardney Priory in 1386; Depositions, p. 229, 230; and Stowe's
Annals, p. 96, on the authority of Marianus Scotus, who was probably the writer
referred to by the Prior of Bardney. * Ibid.
* Deposition, p. 323. See also p. 103, where a chronicle contemporary with the
Conquest is said to have existed at Watton, in which a Le Scrope was mentioned as
having come to England with William the Conqueror.
FAraLY OF SCROPE. 5
According to the testimony of Sir Gerard de Grymeston, a Simon de
ScROPE
SIMON DE SCROPE witnessed a grant of land from Gilbert
de Gant, who accompanied the Conqueror, to William Fitz Roger,
the ancestor of the said Sir Gerard de Grymeston.^
In the time of Henry the First, WALTER LE SCROPE Walter le
•^ ^ SCROPB.
was one of the witnesses to a charter, by which Walter de Gant
gave lands to the Priory of Bridlington in Yorkshire;^ and in
15 Steph. 1149-50, the services in certain fees and tenements
which
HUGH LE SCROPE owed to Gilbert de Gant Earl of Lin- Hugh lb
ScROPB.
coin, and to Alice his daughter and heiress, the wife of Simon
Earl of Lincoln, were given by the said Earl and Countess to that
Priory.^ Contemporary with him, and possibly his brother, was
Richard le Scrope, who with Hugh witnessed a charter.* Hugh
le Scrope left a son,
ROBERT LE SCROPE, who likewise granted lands to the Robert le
Scrope.
Priory of Bridlington.* He was a witness to a deed, without date,
of Robert son of Walter de Gant and brother of Gilbert Earl of •
Lincoln, by which he confirmed certain grants to Bridlington
Priory.^ In the 6th Ric. I. 1198, he owed cs. for one knight's
fee in Boitrop and Millington in Yorkshire ;7 and he is considered®
to have been the Robert le Scrope who in the 12th Hen. II. 1165-6,
* Deposition, p. 106.
' Chartulary of that Priory. See Deposition, p. 101. It was probably this
Walter le Scrope who gave a toft of land to the Abbey of Thornton. — Burton's
Monasticon Eboracense, p. 227.
* Monast. Angl. 1st ed. vol. ii. p. 162. « Harleian MS. 2101, fo. 241.
* Chartulary of that Priory.— Deposition, p. 102. He is stated in Burton's
Monasticon Eboracense, p. 227, to have given two oxgangs of land, with a toft in
Flotmanby, to the Prioi^ of Bridlington. * Mon. Angl. vi. Part i. p. 288.
' " Robertus de Estcrop debet c*. pro breve de recto feodi .j. militis in Boitorp
& Millington vers' VVillelmum de Boitorp." Rot. Pip. 6 Ric. I. et 10 Ric. I.
■ It has been conjectured, and with some probability, that the Scropes of York-
shire were a distinct branch from those who held knights* fees in Gloucestershire
and Oxfordshire.
6 HlKTOgfiT Uf TBX
OD lerjri&g aa tad far masrjjsn^ like KJngh iMo^xser» «erti&ed ^ist
he held throe LirightfT iot» in Gkiucesterdnrsb.^ fif* 1*^ ifisue two
sons, Phju^ and Siscni u: Scsi«P£j^
Pemr ix PHILIP LE SCROPE '^TM erne of lilt zieiwnf^ ^*t. lendered
SCBOFE. ^
an account to tiie Kiag cf li^ rev=aDiAef> for am- tod- of liie An^
bishop of York in tlie Gth Bki. L 11S&* and ^at a panr if» a £ne
levied bj his brother SiiDan and hii^ negD^iev Henrr le Senile, in
the reign at John.^ Bt ABce hi§ wiSt^ who wTtt^ Irring in IdOSu
he left issue t vo daaghterf^ : Hath, who mxnied TBcnuAi^ «an d
Adelaed de WiiiJLU>£BT«'^ and Auc£. who in liie 6di Jaftm ^irK>
the widov of Ivo son at Waixix i« Staxtox.* In -^ucL vemr tiier
granted to Simon Scrape and dke beii^ cf his bodr, aD tiie lands in
Flotmanbv, in the oountr of York, which had hdcsigiEd to Finlip
their father, and which appear to hare descended to him boat his-
ancestors ; for which the said Sanon paid them twcBtr martLfs he-
I Liber Niger de ScMcaho, p. 16^ * DeposaDco^ p. 3 0£.
' There wu also about this period a Rosr jlt Scitori of Banim in LmDCth»-
shire, who was sUin ai the siese of Acre in IISKV. [BmmjvtonV Qiramck!:. a* 1 1 $n.)
and a RoBcar Scropc of Samoo, €so. \osk^ w^q» smu Jovx Sciton^ c*ve lands
in SantoD to the Phonr of Wanm. — McoastiooB E^KCvniK, p. 41S. Rioieut
ScKOP£ of Banoo super Unmber, held ooe kixu^'s iee of SisKm Eari cf ?&aniH
amfklOQ, in 12 Hen. II. which was giren to hna hr Alioe the wiiE* of ihaa Eaii.
His descendant, Joccrs ix Scmort, died setsed of it in the Z3rA Edw. L kcmi^
JoA« wUe of \Valtc:k de Oscoixbt, his suaer and hev. then thuir vbsb cf aeeL
(Rot. Grig. 33 Edw. Land Each. eod. an. No. 47. Is the saaaeimr, Waker de
Oagoieby and Joan his wile prexsMed a petixioo to PaiiiasieDi, «obi]^ thai the
Countess .Mice de Gam, dantchter of Gilbet de GaBCi, had puAed to Bofaen Le-
icrop, ancestor of the md Joan, whose heir she was, nebt of puasre in a place
called Littlemanh, in the town of Banoo saper Humber, whidi had been inhemcd
bjr aO the heirs of the said Robert nnti! the time of Jooens deoeiMd, btoiher of the
waid Joan, wIk>, betn^ within a^ was in wardriup of Gilbert de Gaot bieij de-
oeiMd, who dispossessed lujm. BoL PaxL L 169.
* Rot. Pip. 8 Ric. I. » DepOBtion, p. I02.
* TVonasiooofAdelarddeWiUardcftMr.and Hand daaghlCT of Phil tp Europe,
his wife, ^re nine acres of bnd,liLC in WiUaidebj, which riae confirmed dming her
widowhood ; and Iro son of Waher de Stwion, and Alice his wife, another daugh-
ter of Philip Eicrope, coofinned the cane^ — ^Hooasticoo Fliorjrente, pu 243, from
dbe Bepstitr of Bndltogtoo, f. as.
^ Jfauftioon Eboracfnse, pu 227.
FAMILY OF SCROPE. 7
sides giving five marks to Alice their mother.^ They died without
issue,^ and their uncle,
SIMON LE SCROPE of Flotmanby, became their heir. In Simon le
ScROPE.
the 6th John, 1205, he paid half a mark for licence of agreement
with the daughters of Philip le Scrope ;' and by a charter, without
date, but which appears to have been made in 9 Hen. III. 1225,
he and Ingoliana his wife, granted to Henry le Scrope, their
son and heir, all their lands in Wenslay in the county of York.*
Simon le Scrope was buried in the church of Wenslay, and was
succeeded by his son,*
HENRY LE SCROPE, who was a party to the fine levied by Henry le
his father, and about the 6th John 1205,^ he paid sixty marks for
his relief.^ By the description of ** Henry son of Simon Scrope,'' he
gave to the Priory of Bridlington all his lands in Flotmanby lying
between Waldike and the marsh of the said town, together with
the homage and service of Walter Schankes and his heirs, for two
oxgangs of land which Alice Le Scroop, relict of Ivo son of Walter
de Staxton, quit-claimed,® and bestowed on that Priory the two
oxgangs of land which his father granted to Alice and Maud his
* As this charter, which is preserved among the muuiments at Bolton Hall,
throws some light on the early state of the Scrope family, a copy will be inserted
among the Proofs of the Pedigree. It was sealed by Simon Scrope, and the
grantees ; but the seal of the former only remains, and presents a winged griffin
passant, inscribed Sigill' Si'onis Scrop.
* Rot. Pip. 7 John, Ebor. Leland*s Itin. viii. f. 54.
» Rot. Pip. 7 John. Ebor. Deposition, p. 102. Contemporary with Simon le
Scrope was Aceline de Scrope of Flotmanby, who left a daughter called Agnes;
(Mon. Ebor. p. 227.) A Richard de Scrupes gave fifty marks and a palfrey
for the wardship of Osbert le Strange. — Rot. Pip. 2 John, Worcestershire. It was
probably this Richard de Scrupes to whom the following record refers : " Glouc'
Vicecomes de Berkesir' debet respondere de scutagio Ricardi de Scrupes duarum
marcarum de feodo duorum militum." Memorand. Scacc. a^ 1 Joh. rot 8. in dors.
* Scrope evidences in Bolton liall. To this charter, which will be found among
the Proofs and Illustrations of the Pedigree, Eustace de Ludham, " tunc Vicecomes
Ebor* " was one of the witnesses, who filled that situation in the 9th and 10th Hen.
III. 1225, 1226. * Deposition, p. 129. « Ibid. p. 102.
7 Rot. Fin. 6 John, m. 8. ' Monasticon Eboracense, p. 227.
8 HISTORY OF THE
nieces.^ He confirmed a grant* made by his father of lands in
Flotmanby to the Abbot and Monks of St. Mary of Rivaulx, in
Yorkshire, for the health of his own and his parents^ souls, by a
charter, in which he styled himself " Henry son of Simon Scrope
of Flotmanby.*" ^ It seems to have been this Henry le Scrope who
in the 2nd Hen. III. 1217-8, when the first scutage of that reign
was collected, paid six marks for three knights^ fees, which had
belonged to " Robert le Scrope, his grandfather.*"* These fees
consisted of Wichinton in Gloucestershire, and lands in Berkshire
and Oxfordshire.*
Hbnry le Henry le Scrope married Julian daughter of Roger Brune of
Thornton ; and by their charter without date they gave two ox-
gangs of land in the town of Northfiling to the church of St. Peter
and St. Hilda, and to the abbot and monks of the same ; which
grant Roger Brune of Thornton, with the consent of Isabella his
wife, and of their heir, confirmed ; and in this deed the said Julian
is called the daughter of Roger Brune.^ The time of his death is
unknown, but he was buried at Wenslay,^ and left a son,^
* Monasticon Eboracense, p. 228.
* A Walter Scrop was a witness to this confirmation, which Walter was pro»
bably the person who by the description of ** Walter Scrop son of Gilbert
Scrop/' also confirmed a grant from Simon Scrope of Flotmanby by a deed wit-
nessed by Hubert Prior of Bridlington, and Ada Prioress of Malton. — Deposition,
p. 94. A Walter Scrope was slain at the siege of Acre in 1190, Brompton's Chro-
nicle. It was probably this Gilbert de Scrope who owed thirty marks ''pro debitu
■
Judeorum'^ in 12 John, and might have been a brother of the Simon le Scrope men-
tioned in the text. — Oblata de Lincoln. Rot. Pip. 12 John. — Contemporary with
Henry le Scrope was Joceline le Scrope, who is stated to have been seneschal or
steward to Henry le Scrope in 8 Hen. III. 1224. Mem. Scacc. Hill. 8 Hen. III. r. 6.
* Deposition, p. 93. * Rot. Pip. 2 Hen. IH. Glouc.
* Testa de Nevill, p. 77. The following notices of Henry le Scrope are among
the records of the Exchequer: " Cirencestr*. De Henrico de Scrupes xl*. de
scutagio.'' Mem. Scac. Pasch.lOJoh. rot. 5. in dors. " Gloucestrescir*. Henricus
Descrupes affidavit (facere pacem) de iii marcis de secuudo scutagio Regis Johan."
Ibid. rot. 11. in dors. " Honor Gloucestr*. De Henrico de Scrupes xl*. de
scutagio.^' Ibid. rot. 14.
« Mon. Ebor. p. 72, from the Register of Whitby. "^ Deposition, p. 129.
* Ibid. — It is most likely that this Henry le Scrope was also father of the Tho-
mas LE ScROPE who was Abbot of Gervaux about the year 1266* — Deposition,
FAMILY OF SCROPE. 9
WILLIAM LE SCROPE, who is supposed to have been the Wilmam lr
ScRore.
William le Scrope that held six hides of land by equal portions,
in Baldinton in Oxfordshire, of Adam Despencer, by the service of
one knight and suit at the hundred court, in the 39th Hen. III.
1254-5.^ The period of his decease has not been ascertained, but
he was buried with his ancestors at Wenslay.^ According to Dug-
dale and other authorities,' he was living in the 24th Edw. I., and
was the father of Sir Henry le Scrope, one of the King''s Justices in
the early part of the reign of Edward the Second, but a comparison
of dates renders it almost certain that one generation is omitted by
those writers; and the Deponents in 1386, who recite the pedigree
of Sir Richard Scrope, state that the said Sir Henry was the descen-
dant of this William le Scrope. He was probably the father of
RICHARD LE SCROPE, who held the knight's fee in Chebry Richard ul
and Ordeiston, in Berkshire, " de Baronia de Scrupes,'*' and in Bal-
dinton, in Oxfordshire, which was possessed by Robert de Scrope
in the early part, and by William le Scrope in the 39th year, of the
reign of Henry the Third, and which was inherited by William le
Scrope in the 7th Edw. I.* On the 26th May, 47 Hen. III. 1263,
Richard le Scrope was summoned to serve with horse and arms
against the Welsh .^ Nothing farther is known of him,^ but he
p. 95. No abbot of the name of Thomas occurs in the list of the abbots of Ger-
vaux in Dugdale*s Monasticon between 1193 and 1425; but that list is very
imperfect, for Eustace is said to have been abbot in 1225, and the next name is
that of Ralph in 1289, between which period Thomas Scrope possessed the dignity.
It is probable that Henry le Scrope had also a daughter, the Margaret le Scrope
who married Sir Robert Chauncy, Baron of Skirbenbeck, whose arms, with those
of her husband, were stated by their descendant. Sir William Chauncy, in 1386,
to have been engraved on their tomb. — Deposition, p. 113.
* In the early part of the reign of Henry the Third, this fee was held of Thupstan
Despencer by Robert de Scrope, who might have been an elder brother of this
William, and to whom perhaps he became heir. — Testa de Nevill, p. 105.
* Deposition, p. 129. ' Baronage, i. 654. Blore's History of Rutland, p. 5.
« Testa de Nevill, pp. 105. 110. 117. 123. 133. Rot. Hundred, ii. p. 724.
* Rot. Claus. 48 Hen. III. m. 7. d.
* It is probable that the Isabella le Scrope who held lands in Wenslay in
dower in 1303 was the widow either of this Richard le Scrope, or of his presumed
VOL. II. c
10 HISTORY OF THE
may be presumed to have died before the 7th Edw. I. 1279, and
to have been the elder brother of
Sir William SIR WILLIAM LE SCROPE, who is supposed to have
lrScbopb.
been the person that in the 7th Edw. I. was seised of Baldinton
St. Laurence in Oxfordshire.^ In the 15th Edw. I. 1286, he
held four bovates of land in Y afford, near Danby Wiske, in
Yorkshire,* and possessed lands in West Bolton and Bolton
Parva in that county.' According to tradition, he was a good
esquire, and highly distinguished for his conduct in the field as
well as in jousts and tournaments, being, it is said, ^'en son temps
le pluis fort torneour de tout notre paiis;**^ and, before he was
knighted, was ^^ un dez pluis noblez bohordurez q home troverait
en un paiis, et noble servant et esquier pour lez armez en torne-
mentz."* In the 24jth Edw. I. 1296, he obtained a grant of free
warren in all his demesne lands of East Bolton, Little Bolton,
Fencotes, and Yarnewick, in the county of York ;* and it appears
that he soon afterwards conveyed the greater part of his property
to his eldest son, for by a deed dated at Fletham on Tuesday after
the feast of the Holy Trinity, 4th June 1303, Sir Henry Scrope
settled the manors of East and Little Bolton on his father for
life.** It has not been ascertained when Sir William Scrope died :
by Constance his wife^ he left issue,
father William le Scrope. Those lands were held of Peter son of John de Wens-
lay, and had been in the hands of Geo£Brey Lutterell by reason of the minority of
John son of the said Peter. — Scrope Evidences in Bolton Hall.
* Rot. Hundred, ii. 724. In the 7th Edw. I. it was found that " Fratr' Ro-
BERTUS ScROP, Prcccptor de Couele," had appropriated to himself the liberty of
the Hundred of Bolenden in Oxfordshire; that where he had been accustomed to
do suit, he did so no longer ; and that where he had usually paid 7s* yearly for
hidage, and 2«. for view of frank pledge, he then paid nothing. Ibid. ii. p. 722.
« Whitaker's Richmondshire, i. 254. * Ibid. p. 370, 390.
* Depositions, pp. 132, 3. 142. * Rot. Cart. 24 Edw. I. n. 13.
* Original Deeds, among the Scrope evidences in Bolton Hall.
7 Vide page 13 postea. From the circumstance of her son Sir Henry Scrope
having inherited lands in Newsom-upon-Tyne, and from Thomas, son of Gillo de
Newsom, having left property at that place to his daughter and heiress Constance,
tlie identity between these women may be presumed.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. H
1. HENRY LE SCROPE.
2. Geoffrey lb Scrope of Masham, who will be noticed in a
subsequent page.
3. Stephen le Scrope, Clerk, who witnessed a charter of his
brother Henry'*s about the year 1300,^ and was Rector of
Marske, in Yorkshire, in 1310.^ By a deed without date,
he conveyed his manor of West Bolton to his brother Sir
Henry le Scrope.'
4. A daughter, who married William de Cleseby, of Marske,
by whom she had a son, Harsculphus de Cleseby. His
uncle. Sir Henry le Scrope, confirmed the grant of a place
called " the Hermitage^ to him, by a charter without date,'
but which seems to have been granted about the year 1300.
SIR HENRY LE SCROPE, eldest son of Sir William le Sir Henrv
Scrope, is first mentioned in the 27th Edw. I. 1299, when he
obtained the King'^s licence for a market and fair in his manor of
Croft in Yorkshire.* This eminent person applied himself with,
it is said, the approbation of his family,^ to the study of the law,
and on the 27th November, 2 Edw. II. 1308, was made a Judge
of the Court of King's Bench.^ In the 4th Edw. II. he was a
Justice of Assize in the northern counties,^ and served in the ex-
pedition into Scotland.® As one of the executors of the Will of
Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, he was requested by the King,
in February 1311, to lend him four thousand marks of the EarPs
money to prosecute the war in Scotland.^ Having in the 5th Edw.II.
quitted Parliament without leave, a Writ was addressed to him
on the 12th September 1311, peremptorily commanding him to
return.^^ In March following, being then a Knight, he was empow-
• Original Deeds, now in the possession of John Hutton, of Marske, co.
York, Esq. « Ibid.
' Archives in Bolton Hall. * Rot. Cart. 27 Edw. I. n. 28.
^ Deposition, p. 142.
• Rot. Patent. 2 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 17. Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p' i. 40.
^ Rot. Claus. 4 Edw. II. in dors. m. 19. ■ Rot. Scot. 4 Edw. II. m. 7.
• Foedera, N. E. i. 128. Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p* ii. 34.
*• Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p' i. 56.
c 2
12 HISTORY OF THE
Sir Henry ered to treat with several peers who were about to assemble in
London, concerning the revision of certain ordinances.^ He was
in Wales in the 7th Edw. 11. in the King^s service,* and about
that time obtained a grant of a yearly rent of 47«. 9d, in Medburn,
in Leicestershire, with the advowson of that church.* In the 8th
Edw. II. he was nominated a collector of the twentieth and fifteenth
In the city and suburbs of London,* and was ordered to give credence
to two persons who were sent to explain to him the King's wishes
relative to the defence of the Scotch Marches in March 1316.*
Sir Henry Scrope was a trier of petitions in the parliament which
met at Lincoln in the 9th Edw. 11.;^ and on the 15th of June,
10 Edw. II., 1317, he was promoted to the situation of Chief
Justice of the King^s Bench,^ which he enjoyed about seven years,
but in the 16th Edw. II. he was superseded by Harvey de Staun-
ton.^ This measure does not appear to have arisen from the
King'*s disapprobation of his conduct, for in the same year all the
hereditaments which Andrew de Harcla, Earl of Carlisle, possessed
in Caldwell and Uckerby in Richmondshire, were granted to him in
fee;9 and in the 17th Edw. II. he was constituted Keeper of the
Eing^s forests beyond the Trent. ^® It would seem, however, that
he was still considered a Justice, for he was summoned to Par-
liament with the rest of those personages in the 17th and 19th
Edw. II. 1323—1325 ;" and on the 12th March 1326, he was
one of the Judges appointed to try some offenders who had be-
sieged the castle of Tickhill.*« In the 18th Edw. II., Sir Henry
was joined with his brother, Sir Geoffrey Scrope, in a commission
to treat for peace with Scotland ;^^ and on the 10th September,
20 Edw. II. 1326, was nominated a Conservator of the Peace,
with special powers, in the county of York.^*
liot. Pari. i. 447 b. Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p' i. 77. ii. 48.
Ilot. Claiii. 7 Edw. II. in. 13. • Rot. Grig. i. 205. * Ibid. i. 211.
Rot. Scot. 8 Edw. II. m. 5. • Rot. Pari. i. 350. b.
Rot Claus. 10 Edw. II. m. 28. Parliamentary Writs, vol ii. pMi. 413.
Rot. Liberat. 17 Edw. II. m. 2.
Rot Patent. 16 Edw. II. p. l.m. 2. *® Rot Grig. 17 Edw. II. r. 5.
' Parliamentary Wriu, vol. ii. p' i. 287. 335. " Ibid. ii. 284.
* Foedera, N. E. vol. ii. p* ii. p. 118. Patent 18 Edw. II. p. 1. m. 11.
* Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p* ii. 291. 394.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 13
Immediately after the accession of Edward the Third, namely, s
on the 15th February 1327, Sir Henry Sorope's appointment as
a puisne Justice of the King's Bench was renewed,' and he con-
tinued in that office until the 28th October 1329, when he was
restored to his former situation of Chief Justice of the King'id
Bench;'' but on the 19lh of December, 4 Edw. III. 1330, he was
succeeded by his brother, Sir Geoffrey Scrope,' and on the same
day was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer,* when the King
granted hiui, as a reward for " his good services," some tenements
in Bayford in Hertfordshire.'' It is remarkable, that on the 18th
November, 7 Edw. III. 1333, he was made Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas," but on the next day the patent was cancelled ;
and he was again appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer,'
a proceeding which may perhaps be explained by supposing that
he had been removed from the Exchequer without his consent, and
that he was replaced at his own solicitation. Sir Henry Scrope
obtained various charters of free warren and markets in Bolton
and his other manors in Yorkshire, between the 5th and 16th
Edw. 11.;^ and having purchased all the property of Thomas de
Richmond in Yorkshire, he was styled Founder of the Abbey of
St. Agatha,^ to which that family had been great benefactors.
By a chirograph between Sir Henry Scrope and John de Perce-
brigg Abbot of St. Agatha, dated there on Saturday 1st January
7th Edw. III. 1333-4, it was agreed that all the tenements which
the abbey held of Sir Henry by various services, should in future
be held of him and his heirs by the service of finding a priest to
celebrate divine service in the church of the Holy Trinity of Wens-
lay, for the souls of William le Scrope and Constance his wife,
father and mother of the said Sir Henry, and of his ancestors;
for the souls of the heirs of the said Sir Henry and Margaret
his wife, and the heirs of their bodies ; for the souls of Sir Geof-
' Pal. 1 Edw, III. p. i. m. 36.
' Rot Claiu. 3 Edw. III. m. 7. ' Ibid. 4 Edw. IH. m. 1 3.
* Pal. 4 Edw. 111. p. a. m. 20.
* Rot. Orig. ii. 43. " Patent. 7 Edw. III. p. 11. in. 15. ' Ibid, i
■ Rot. Carl, ' Deposition, \>. 130.
14
HISTORY OF THE
Sir Henry
le scrope.
frey le Scrope and Ivetta his wife, and the heirs of their bodies ;
for the soul of Sir Henry Lacy formerly Earl of Lincoln ; and for
the souls of all the faithful deceased.^
Sir Henry Scrope was a Knight Banneret, and his Arms are de-
scribed among those of the Bannerets of England in a Roll of Arms
compiled between the 2nd and 7th Edw. II.,
being, Azure, a bend Or, charged in the upper
part of the bend with a lion passant Purpure;^
which agrees with the bearings on a seal at-
tached to a deed granted by him, dated 5th
April, 14 Edw. II., 1321.' It is stated by the
Abbot of Coverham, that the Lion was intro-
duced into the bend in consequence of a grant to
one of the Scropes for the term of his life by the Earl of Lincoln.^
The blazon of the banner of this Sir Henry Scrop, added to the
fact that he was the executor of Henry de Lacy, last Earl of
Lincoln, who died in 131 S, whose arms were Or, a lion rampant
Purpure, prove that he was the person alluded to ; and it may
perhaps be inferred that it was a mark of friendship in the four-
teenth century for one person to allow another to bear part of his
arms with his own.^
Sir Henry Scrope died on the 7th September, 10 Edw. III.
1336,^ being then Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and was buried
in the Abbey of St. Agatha near Richmond, where a tomb was
erected to his memory, which one of the Deponents particularly
described."^ He was possessed of considerable property in Middle-
sex, Leicestershire, Hertfordshire, Rutlandshire, and Bedfordshire,
but chiefly in the county of York,® a small part only of which ap-
pears to have descended to him from his ancestors. His wife was
> Scrope Evidences in Bolton Hall. ' 8vo. 1828. p. 94.
' Deposition, p. 132. These arms were placed in the church of St. Mary sur
Rychill, York. < Deposition, p. 98.
^ Some remarks on the introduction of a Lion in their arms, by the Scropes,
will be found in the Notes.
• Esch. 10 Edw. 111. No. 47. and Deposition, p. 222.
^ Depositions, p. 95. 130. 222. • Esch. 10 Edw. III. No. 47.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 16
Margaret, who, accordinir to many pedigrees, was a daughter of Sir Henry
° . . *** ScROPE.
Lord Roos ;^ but from the effigies of the Scrope family in Wenslay
Church, it would seem that she was a daughter of Lord Fitz Wal-
ter.^ Lady Scrope married secondly Sir Hugh Mortimer of Chel-
marsh in Shropshire and Luton in the county of Bedford, and died
17th October 1357 ; when her son. Sir Richard Scrope, was found
to be her heir, and thirty years of age and upwards.^ Sir Henry
Scrope left issue three sons,
1. WILLIAM LE SCROPE.
2. Stephen le Scrope, who was next in the entail of his father''s
lands in Leicestershire and Hertfordshire.* He died
without issue male, and probably unmarried, before the
19th Edw. III. as in that year his younger brother suc-
ceeded to those lands.
8. RICHARD LE SCROPE, who became heir to his brother
William.
SIR WILLIAM LE SCROPE, the eldest son of Sir Henry Sir Whuam
•^ LB Scrope.
Scrope the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, was born in 1320, as
he was found to be sixteen years of age at his father^s death in
1336,* soon after which he did homage for his property in Lei-
cestershire.^ About July 1338, being then nearly eighteen, he
accompanied the King into Flanders,^ and was with the army at
Vironfoss or Burenfoss in Picardy, in October 1339» when the
English and French armies were drawn up in expectation of a
* Pedigrees of Scrope in Vincent's MS. marked " Picture of our Lady," in the
College of Arms, and by Glover, Somerset Herald, in the Lansdowne MS. 205, as
well as several other authorities.
* Sketches of these effigies occur in Sir William Dugdale's MS. in the College
of Arms, entitled " Yorkshire Arms," where it is said that this Henry was called in
an inscription on or near the said effigy, " Henry the First, the first Lord of
Bolton ;" and his arms are impaled with those of Fiti Walter. It is to be observed,
that those effigies were not erected earlier than the middle of the reign of Henry
the Sixth. See the " Proofs and Illustrations" postea.
' £sch. 32 Edw. III. No. 22. She held a tenement in Heyndon in Middlesex,
called Hodeford, in dower after the death of Sir Henry Scrope her first husband.
* Esch. 10 Edw. III. No. 47. » Ibid. « Rot Orig. ii. 106.
^ Rot. Alem. 12 Edw. III. m. 7. Foedera, vol. ii. p* iii. p. 28.
16 HISTORY OF THE
Sir Wit.mam Conflict.^ He was again in Flanders in 1340, and was at tbe
siege of Tournay, in Julj and September in that year;^ and,
early in 1342, was with the expedition into Scotland in the
retinue of Ralph Lord Neville.' Edward the Third having in>
vaded Brittany with a formidable force in October 13^,^ Sir
William Scrope served, under the banner of the Elarl of North-
ampton,^ at the siege of Vannes in December following.^ His
military career was not destined to be of long continuance, for
the town of Morlaix being soon afterwards invested. Sir William
was so severely wounded with an arrow in an assault, or battle,
during the siege, that he languished for nearly two years,^ and died
on the ITth November, 18 Edw. 111.1344,^ aged about twenty-
four. He married Cecily, who according to some pedigrees was a
daughter of Lord Fitz Walter,^ but the impalement of his arms
on his effigy in Wenslay Church tends to prove that her name
* Deposition, p. 213; Froissart, par Buchon, tome i. p. 251 — ^263; and
Robert of Avesbury, p. 46. et seq.
* Deposition, p. 105, 243 ; Froissart, i. 349. et seq.; and Avesbuiy, p. 59.
* Rot. Scot. 15 Edw. III. m. 4; Fcedera, iii. p' iii. p. 115; Froissart, i.
p. 45. et seq. * Fcedera, iii.p' iii. p. 35. 137. * Deposition, p. 198.
* Ibid. p. 116, 127, 145, 151 ; Froissart, i. 147. etseq. ; Aresbuiy, p. 100.
7 Ibid. p. 51, 127, 145, 198, 212. Some of tbe Deponents have confounded
this Sir William Scrope with Sir William, brother of Heniy Lord Scrope of Ma-
sham. For example, Sir Thomas Roos of Kendall says he was at the battle of
Berwick iu 1356, (Deposition, p. 133.) whilst William Hesilrigg, Esq. describes
him to have been wounded at Morlaix, to have fought at Cressy in 1346, to have
died at the siege of Calais in 1 346-7 of the wound he received at Morlaix, and
adds, that his body was brought to England. Sir William Scrope his cousin was
undoubtedly at Cressy and the siege of Calais, (Deposition, p. 127) ; but no Sir
William is known to have died either in 1346 or 1347, so that in this part of his
statement Hesilrigg must have been mistaken. A similar error, excepting with
respect to his death at Calais, was committed by Nicholas Sabraham, Esq. (De-
position, p. 125), who makes the Sir William Scrope mentioned in the text to have
served in Gascony and Spain, in 1 367.
* Inq. post mortem, 19 Edw. Ill.n. 61. — '* Juratores dicunt quod Willielmus
filius Henrici Lescrop* Chivaler obiit decimo septimo die Novembris, anno
regni Edward i tercii decimo octavo, &c.'' " Dicunt etiam quod Ricardos le Scrope
firater predicti Willielmi est propinquior heres ipsius Willielmi et «talis sep-
temdecim annorum."
^ Lansdowne MS. 205. MS. in Coll. Arm. marked *' Picture of our Lady.'*
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
17
wasRoos: he had no issue, and his widow married, within two ^tm Wili
years after his decease, John de Clopton, when the niBDors of
East and West Bolton with several others were assigned to her
in dower. ^ Sir William Scrope was buried in the Abbey of St.
Agatha, and a tomb was placed over his remains.-
The Deponents state that he bore the Arms of Scrope entire,'
which is corroborated by his seal attached to a grant of certain
lands in Wenslay, dated on Sunday after the feast of the Nativity
of the Virgin, 16 Edw. III. IS September 1342.* A Roll of Arms»
which was compiled between 1337 and 1350,
attributes to him. Azure a bend Or, in the point
of the bend a lion rampant Purpure. As his
.. father bore his Arms in that
I manner, the statement
' probably correct, and the 1
discrepancy may be recon-
ciled by supposing that he
abandoned the Lion on the
bend after the Roll of Arms
alluded to was written. The seal alluded to
proves that the Crest of the family was a Crab issuing from a ducal
coronet, which was afterwards borne by the Scropes of Masham
only. Sir William Scrope's heir was his brother.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE, Fmsx Baron Scrope op Bolton, E.cu«p, ««.t
who must have been bom about 1328, as he was seventeen years or Boltoh.
old at the time of his brother's decease. This individual was
the appellant against Sir Robert Grosvenor, and the earliest notice
of him after his brother's death, is in 1346, when he served in the
army with which Edward the Third invaded France. It does not
■ Claus. 20 Edw. ni. p. 1
dotis Cecelie quce fuit uxor
Clopton' duxit in uxorem," Ju
> Depositions, p. 95. 130.
* Original deed amoi^ the
lo which b inserted in the text.
VOL. II.
in doTSO tn. 1. and Rot.Orig. II. 196. "Assigoatio
WiUielmi Leacrop' defuncli quam Johannes de
' Ibid. p. 127, 130, 143.
at Bolton Hall, an engraving of the Seal
18 HISTORY OF THE
RicHAiitf, FIRST appear that he was at the naval victory near La Hogue in July in
Lord Scropb i i i /. ^
OF Bolton. that year, but he was m the celebrated battle of Cressy on the
20th of August ;^ and received the honour of knighthood ^ at the
battle of Durham,^ on the 17th of October following, where the
Scotch were signally defeated, when he served in the retinue of
Lord Percy.*
The King commenced the siege of Calais in September 1346,
which continued until August in the ensuing year: during the
greater part of the time Sir Richard Scrope was present,^ and
on that occasion his right to his Crest, a Crab issuing from a ducal
coronet,^ was challenged. At this circumstance Robert de UfFord
Earl of Suffolk expressed great astonishment, because Scrope was,
he said, descended from an ancient family entitled to armsJ
Nothing is known of him for the next four years, but on
the 29th of August 1350 he was in the memorable sea-fight
near Rye and Winchilsea,® when Edward the Third in person,
with the Black Prince, defeated a fleet of forty-four ships under
Don Carlos de la Cerda, and captured upwards of twenty vessels.
In this engagement, which is generally called by the Deponents
the battle of " Espagnols sur Mere,'' Sir Richard served in the
retinue of the Earl of Warwick.^
War being declared with France, Edward the Third again
invaded that kingdom, in November 1355,^^ and Sir Richard
Scrope accompanied the expedition, being then in the retinue of
William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton. Though Froissart
states that the King was before Blangis, '^ a fine castle and
fortress in the Comte of Artois," the only military exploit on the
* Deposition, p. 161.
2 Deposition of Lord Neville, p. 204. Sir Richard Sutton however says, p. 202,
that Scrope was knighted at the battle of Berwick in January 1 356, which is very
improbable, as he must then have been in arms at least ten years.
^ Depositions, p. 103, 105, 116. 215. * Ibid. p. 134. * Ibid. p. 63, 167.
* See his Seal in a subsequent page. ^ Deposition, p. 63.
* Ibid. p. 104, 107, 121, 242. Froissart par Buchon, iii. p. 7 et seq. and
Robert of Avesbury, p. 184.
^ Depositions, p. 104, 121. One Deponent says, however, that Scrope was
then in the retinue of the Earl of Northampton, p. 237.
10 Avesbury, p. 204, 205 ; Froissart, iii. p. 68 et seq.
i
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 19
occasion, of which he takes notice, is, that the English ravas^ed the Richard, first
' ' ^ . ^ Lord Scrope
country nearly as far as the Comte of St. Pol ;* and it must be to of Bolton.
this circumstance that the Deponents alluded, when they spoke of
the " chivauchee*" or " viage^^ of Blangis, at which Scrope was
present.^ Information having reached the King, towards the end
of November, that the Scots had surprised and taken Berwick,
he made peace with the French monarch, and immediately returned
to England with his forces. In December, Edward proceeded
against the Scots, encamped before Berwick on the 14th of
January 1356, and regained possession of that town.^ Having
garrisoned it, he proceeded into Scotland with the greater part of
his army, and obliged Edward Balliol to surrender his kingdom,
by charter, dated at Rokesburgh, on the 20th January following.*
Sir Richard Scrope is expressly said to have been at the rescue of
Berwick^ in the company of Sir Gerard de Wytherington and Sir
Edward de Letham ;^ and Sir Adam de Everingham asserts that
he saw Scrope in the presence of the King at St. John's Town,
alias Perth, when Balliol surrendered his right to the throne of
Scotland;"^ but all other authorities assert that this took place
at Rokesburgh, at which town the charter of resignation was
dated.^ Edward marched through Berwickshire into Lothian,
laying waste the country as he proceeded ; and, among other
devastations, burnt the town and beautiful Abbey Church of
Haddington. Sir Richard Scrope was present during this in-
cursion ;9 biit he soon afterwards returned, with the rest of the
troops, to England.
France was invaded, by an immense army under the King in
person, in October 1359; and in April following the English
approached close to Paris. Sir Richard Scrope served in that ex-
pedition in the retinue of John of Gant,*® and, according to one
* Par Buchon, iii. p. 79. » Depositions, pages 108. 216. 219.
^ Avesbuiy, p. 210. 228 ; Froissart, iii. p. 87. * Fcedera, iii. p* i. p. 115.
* Depositions, pages 110. 128. 156. 161. 202. 242. * Ibid. p. 216.
' Ibid. p. 241. * Fcedera, iii. pt i. p. 115. • Deposition, p. 242.
'° Depositions, pages 106. 108, 109, 110. 126. 134, 135. 137. 146. 151. 153.
163 to 168. 170. 174. 176. 188. 190. 193. 202. 204. 210. 213. 215. 218. 241, 242,243.
D 2
20 HISTORY OF THE
HirMAnD^rmtT of the Deponent»,* no les« than fire others of the Scrope familT,
or Bolton. namely, Sir Henry, Sir William, and Sir Geoffrey Scrope, Kmgfats.
and Stephen and Henry Scrope, Esquires^ were then in the fiekL
On that occasion. Sir Richard Scrope was challenged by an
Enquire of Cornwall, named Carminow, as to his right to bear the
arms, Azure, a Bend Or,* and the dispute was decided by the
Duke of Lancaster, the Elarl of Northampton, the Constable, and
the Elarl of Warwick, the Marshal of the army, who adjudged
that they might both bear the said arms entire, on the ground
that Carminow was of Cornwall, which was a large country, and
was formerly a kingdom, and that the Scropes had borne them
since the Conquest.' Peace was signed at Bretigny in May 1360,^
and the army returned to England.
In the 38th Edw. III. 1364, Sir Richard Scrope was elected a
Knight of the Shire for the County of York,^ which is the only
notice of him that has been discovered in the five years that
succeeded the peace with France. When the Duke of Lancaster
proceeded with an army to Bordeaux in 1366, with the intention
of aiding the Black Prince in his efforts to restore Don Pedro to
the Spanish throne, Sir Richard Scrope again served in the
Duke^s retinue,^ and tiaving accompanied him into Spain, partook
of the honours of the decisive victory of Najarre, on the 3rd of
April 1367,^ together with his two cousins, Sir William and Sir
Stephen Scrope.®
The war with France was renewed in 1369, and the Duke of
Lancaster was sent into that kingdom with a powerful army,
being retained to serve the King for half a year, with a retinue of
300 men-at-arms, 500 archers, 216 esquires, 80 knights, and 3
bannerets. Sir Richard appears to have been one of the knights
of the Duke^s retinue, and to have landed with him at Calais in
August in that year.^ It is said by a great many of the Depo-
» Sir John Richford's Deposition, p. 242. ' Depos. pages 125. 146. 214.
' Ibid. p. 214. See the Notes at the end of this volume.
* Foedera, iii. p* i. p. 202. * Prynne's Brev. IVUament.
* Rot. V^asc. 40 Edw. III. m. 3. and Depositions, pages 128. 131.
' Depositions, pages 101. 107. 112. 135. 140. 163. 172. 192. 204. 210. 215.
* Ibid. p. 242. ' Ibid. p. 209.
FASIILV OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
21
nents, that Sir Richard Scrope was armed in the presence of the J
Duke of Lancaster at Balinghaui Hill, in Picardy, or, as it is "
called by some of them, at the "Mont de Balyngham;"' and
though the date of the circumstance olludi^d to is not mentioned,
it is nearly certain that it happened during this expedition.
Neither Froissart nor the other chroniclers speak of any memo-
rable affair at Balinghani until the French captured that Castle in
1378;- and it is therefore presumed that the event in question
was the juxta-posilion of the French and English army, the
former under the Duke of Burgundy, and the latter under the
Duke of Lancaster at Tourneheni, which is close to Balingham,
or, as it is now called in the maps, Mont Bayenghen, in July
and August 1369, of which a particular account is given by
Froissart.' After the two armies had rennained for some time
in this position, without any thing material taking place, the
French broke up their camp, and the English retired to Calais.
Having refreshed his troops at that place, Lancaster commenced
his march into the Pais de Caux. The success which attended this
incursion, or to use the language of the time, " chivauchee,'' is
fully detailed by a contemporary historian,* and the Duke having
returned to Calais, embarked for England on the 18th of Novem-
ber following. Sir Richard Scrope and his eldest son served in
the Duke's retinue during the whole of this expedition;' but for
nearly two years afterwards the public records afford no information
respecting him ; and the nest notice of him is that on the 8th
January 44 Edw. III. 1371, he was summoned to Parliament as
a Baron of the Realm.^ On the 27th March in the same year,
he was appointed Treasurer of the King's Exchequer,' and held
that office until September 1375 ;" and he soon afterwards obtained
a grant of the wardship and marriage of the three daughters and
coheirs of Robert Lord Tiptoft.^'
' Depositions, pages 109, 119. 131.133.146.153. 154. 167. 175, 193, 209.236.
' Fniissarl, par Buchon, lome vi. 328.
' Ibid. Chuptera Dcii. ucviii. ncix. dcx. dcxi. See Ute Noles at the end of
Ihis volume. * Froissan, par Buclioo, cliap.ocxi:.
• Deposilion», pages 109. 117. 121. 146. 154. Ifi7. 172. 174. 175. 176. 193.
209.220.342, 243. • Hoi: Claus. eod. ann. ' Pal. 45 Edw. 111. p. 1. m.as.
* Urigiiies Juridiciales. ■ lloi. Orig. II. 325.
22 HISTORY OF THE
I
RicHiiiD.FiBST Tj^^ Duke of Lancaster landed at Calais with a creat force in
Lord Scrope *^
OF Bolton. July 1373, and after various skirmishes marched through France
to Bordeaux. Lord Scrope, with his men-at-arms and archers,
formed part of his retinue on that occasion,* and from his not
being summoned to Parliament between the 46th and 48th Edw.
III. it may be inferred that he was abroad in those years ; but he
seems to have been in England in December 1375, when a writ of
summons was again issued to him.^ In July 50th Edw. III. 1376,
he was constituted a Commissioner for the preservation of the
truce with Scotland, and for protecting the Marches;^ and in the
next year he was appointed a Commissioner for the punishment
of those who might break the truce with that country.*
On the accession of Richard the Second, Lord Scrope was
appointed Steward of the King's Household. By the title of
" Ricardus le Scrop Senescallus Hospicii Regis'' he was one of
X}^e Commissioners on the 1st January 1 Ric. II. 1378, to reform
what had been done by the borderers contrary to the truce
which then existed between England and Scotland;^ and on the
20th of that month he, with others, was commanded to super-
intend the repairs of the Castles of Berwick, Carlisle, Roxburgh,
and Bamburgh.^ In the parliament which met at Westminster
about Michaelmas in that year, Scrope is recorded to have been
present;^ and a striking proof occurred soon afterwards of the
high opinion which was entertained of his talents and integrity, by
his being constituted Chancellor of England on the 29th October
2 Ric. II. 1378,® which office he held above a year, and surrender-
ed the Great Seal on the 29th January 3 Ric. II. 1380.9 About
this time, he obtained the King's licence to castellate his manor
house of Bolton,*^ and began to rebuild it in so magnificent a style
» Depositions, pages 111. 131. 146. 209. ' Rot. Claas. eod. ann.
• Rot. Scot. 50 Edw. III. m. 2. * Rot. Scot.
• Rot. Scot. 1 Ric. II. m. 5. « Ibid. ' Rot. Pari. iii. 5 a.
" Rot. Claus. 2 Ric. II. in. 25 d. FcEdera, iii. p» iii. p. 81.
• Rot. Claus. 3 Ric. II. m. 22 d. Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 91.
*^ Pat. 3 Ric. II. p. 1, m.43. Rex omnibus ad quos refert salutem. Sciatis quod
de gratia nostra speciali concessimus & licenciam dedimus pro nobis & heredibus
nostris dilecto & iideli nostro Ricardo le Scrop cancellario nostro quod ipse mane-
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 23
that the labour of eiffhteen years and 18,000 marks were spent on Richard, first
° -^ ' ^ Lord Scrope
the edifice.^ The original agreement with the mason employed of Bolton.
still exists,^ and the ruins of the Castle prove that the design was
rium suum de Bolton in Wencelawedale feu unam placeam infra idem manerium
muro de petra & calce firmare et kernellare & manerium illud seu placeam illam
sic firmatum et kemellatum vel firmatam et kemellatam tenere possit sibi et here-
dibus suis imperpetuum sine occasione vel impedimento nostri vel heredum nos-
trorum Justic. Escaetor. &c. Westm. quarto die Julii. [1379.]
' Leland's Itinerary, vol. viii. p. 66.
* " Cest endenture fait parentre mons»" Richard Lescrop Chivaler et Johau Lewyn
mason dautrepart tesmoyne qe le dit Johan ferra les overaynes a Bolton en Wense-
lawedale en manere qensuit : primerement une Tour pur une cusyne qi serra voute
& bataille & serra de hautesse de l pees desouth lembatailleraent & serra de longure
de X alnes & de leoure viii alnes & les mures dehors du dit Tour serront dcspessure
de II alnes. . Item serra fait parentre le dit tour pur le cusyne & la port une meson
voute & bataille & amont le vout serront in chambres chescune sur autre & ches-
cune chambre de longure de xii alnes & de leoure v alnes &c di. & serra le dit meson
de hautesse de xl pees desouth lembataillement & lespessure des mureS dehors de
II alnes & dedeins de iiii pees. Item serra une tour bataille qi serra de hautesse
de L pees desouth lembataillement, en quele tour serra une port voute & amont le
port serront iii chambres chescune sur autre & serront en longure de x alnes & di. &
de leoure de v alnes & di. Et en mesme le tour al partie del port devers la South
serra une chambre voute & sur icelle chambre serront in chambres chescune sur
autre qi serront en longure de xiii alnes & en leoure de vii alnes & les mures
dehors des dits chambres serront despessure de vi pees & dedeins de iiii pees.
Item serra une chambre enjoy nant al dit tour al partie devers la West qi serra
voute & bataille & de hautesse de xl pees desouth lembataillement & amont le dite
chambre voute une autre meson voute & damont cella une chambre qi serront en
longure de x alnes oveske leutre & v alnes & di. en leure & les mures dehors des
ditz chambres serront despessure de ii alnes & les mures dedeins de iiii pees.
Item tous les mesons & chambres avantditz averont entrees [passages] chymynes
huyses [doors] fenestres & privees & autres necessaires qembosoynont a lavantdit •
overeyne. Item serront in vices [staircases] un dedeins la cusyne & n pur le
tour del port. Item tous les mures dedeins les chambres avantditz qi serront parclos
serront despessure de in pees ou iiii pees issint come ils embosoynont. Etle dit
Johan ferra a ses custages toutes maneres de overeynes qa masonrie appent en
service pur ecelles & ferra gayner toutes maneres des peres & trovera calice a ses
custages en touz poyntz pur le dit overayne forspris qe le dit mons' Richard luy
trovera meresme [timber] pur le baudret [framing for raising corbels] pur les
torailles qant ils serront ardz mais le dit mons' Richard trovera cariage pur touz
les peres sabulon & calice a ses custages. Et le dit mons'^ Richard trovera
meresme pur syntres [centering] & scaffald mais le dit Johan les ferra a ses
custages. Pur la quele overayne le dit mons' Richard paiera le dit Johan pur
24 HISTORY OF THE
Richard, FIRST closelv followed in the execution. The building consisted of four
Lord Scrope
OF Bolton. large square towers at its angles, which were connected by inter-
mediate ranges of apartments one story in height lower than the
towers ; the whole enclosing a spacious court. A small tower rose
in the centre of the north and south sides, which were about one
hundred and eighty-five feet in length. The fafades to the east
and west were about one hundred and twenty-eight feet in extent.
There were three entrances ; but the chief gate was on the east
side. The architecture does not exhibit any peculiarity to distin-
guish it from other edifices of the period ; and Leland thus described
it in the reign of Henry the Eighth : — " The castell standethe on a
" roke syde, and all the substaunce of the lodgynges in it be in-
" cludyd in iiij principall toures. It was finichid or Kynge Richard
the II dyed. One thinge I much notyd in the hauUe of Bolton,
how chimeneys were conveyed by tunnells made on the syds of
" the walls bytwixt the lights in the hawll, and by this means, and
** by no covers is the smoke of the harthe in the hawle wonder
" strangly convayed. Moste parte of the tymber that was occu-
" pied in buyldynge of this castell was fett out of the forest of
** Engleby in Cumberland, and Richard Lord Scrope for convey-
aunce of it had layde by the way dyvers drawghts of oxen to
carry it from place to place, till it cam to Bolton. There is a
" very fayre cloke at Bolton, cum motu solis et lunae, and other
conclusyons."" ^
a
it
u
chescun perche mesure par xx pees par lalne sibien pur voltes come pur mures
c. s. & outre en tout l marcs. £t prendera le dit Johan en partie du paiement la
somme qest ore despendu par laccompt entre luy et S"" William Wynterton forspris
XLi qi serra rebatu de la dite somme. £t serra la dite oyerayne mesure solon^
la hautesse de la base de la port. £n tesmoynance de quele chose a les parties
de ceste endenture les parties avantditz entrechangeablement ont mys lour seals.
Don a Bolton le quatorzisme jour de Septembre Ian du regne nostre Seignour le Roi
Richard second puys le Conquest second.^' The seal attached bears the impress
of the Virgin and Child, and a suppliant kneeling before her. From the Archives
of Bolton Hall.
Bolton Castle is remarkable from having been the place in which Mary Queeu
of Scots — a name which imparts a romantic interest to every thing connected with
it — ^was confined, before her removal to Tutbury. The Castle was ably defended by
Colonel Scrope, against the Parliamentary forces, in the reign of Charles the First.
There is a view of it in Whitaker's History of Richmondshire. * Itin. viii. 66.
FAMILY OF SCROPF OF BOLTON.
25
In a commission tlated 28 May 1380, directing him to receive Rici
12,000 marks from the Scots at Berwick, part of the ransom of ar i
David Bruce, he is styled a "Banneret;"' and it may be pre-
sumed that this rank was conferred upon him by Richard the
Second, because none of the Deponents who apeak of his being
present in the battles of the reign of Edward the Third, mention
his having ever borne a banner, but only as having been " armed"
in his arms on those occasions. The Duke of Lancaster marched
against Scotland in 1380, and was accompanied by Lord Scrope;'-'
but historians state, that a negociation having immediately com-
menced, peace was re-established, and the Duke disbanded his
forces. It seems, however, that before hostilities ceased, an engage-
ment took place at Dumfries, when that town was set on fire,
for the burning of Dumfries is an event particularly referred to
by several of the Deponents, who assert that Lord Scrope was
one of the commanders present.' Lord Dacre says he received the
honour of Knighthood whilst serving under Scrope'a banner on
that occasion,* and Sir Randolf Pigot states that he was then in
his retinue.* He was shortly afterwards appointed an ambassador
to treat for a league with the Duke of Brittany ;^ and numerous
writs' were issued to him in the 4th Ric. II. connected with the
defence of the Western Marches towards Scotland, of which he was
appointed Warden on the 12th of February 1381,* as well as for
the punishment of infractors of the truce which then subsisted with
that country.
On tile 4th of December 1381, Lord Scrope was re-appointed
Chancellor,? and held that important situation until the 7th of
July 1382."' \\'alsingham stales that he was distinguished for hi»
■ RoLScot. 3 Rlcll. m.t. He was again
pose in September following, Ibid. 4 Ric. II. m. 9.
' DepositioDS, p. 119. 186. 192. 199. 205.
' Ibid. p. 116. 119. 179. 186. 237. 233. 239.
' Ibid. p. 119.
' Hot. ScoL 4 Ric. II. '
•Hoi. Claus.5 Ric. II. m. 27 d. Ftrdera, iii. p'iii.
" Rol. Claus. 6 Ric. II. p. 1. m. 24. Fcedera, iii. p"
VOL. II. £
' Rot. Franc. 3 Ric. 11. m. 14.
RolScoi. 4 Ric. II. [
26 HISTORY OF THE
Richard, FIRST extraordinary wisdom and integrity; and gives the following
Lord Scropb
OF Bolton. explanation of the cause of the Great Seal being taken from him.
After the death of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, and of some
other tenants in capite, numerous applications were made to the
King for their lands, which fell to the Grown in consequence of
the minority of their heirs. His Majesty, regardless of his own
pecuniary necessities, having commanded the Ghancellor to comply
with those requests, Scrope ventured to remonstrate, and urged
the propriety of keeping the lands in the King^s own hands for
the supply of his exigencies. Incensed at this behaviour, Richard
sent ^^ messenger after messenger to Scrope, desiring him forthwith
to return the Great Seal, but he refused to deliver it to any other
person than to the King himself.^' ^
During the year 1382, Lord Sqrope was repeatedly present
in Parliament, and performed various parliamentary duties, being
appointed to confer with the Commons,^ a Trier of Petitions,' and
a Commissioner to inquire into the state of the King^s household.^
He likewise continued in the office of Warden of the Marches,^
and in November 1382, and May 1383, was one of the persons
selected to negociate a truce with Scotland.^ An expedition
against that country being resolved upon towards the close of
1383, a large army, under the command of the Duke of Lan-
caster, was levied ; and on the 15th of January 1384, Scrope was
ordered to review part of it, and to report the efficiency and num-
ber of the troops to the King.^ According to several of the
Deponents, he again served under Lancaster,^ and was with him
at the capture of Edinburgh about March following; but the
inclemency of the weather having forced the English to retire, it
was not until the following year, when Richard took the field
in person, that they succeeded in devastating that kingdom. In
this expedition, Scrope challenged the right of Sir Robert Gros-
* Walsingbaro, p. 290. * Rot. Pari. iii. 110 a. ' Ibid. p. 99 a. 141 a.
* Ibid. p. 101 a. * Rot. Scot. 6 Ric. II.
« Rot. Scot 6 Ric. II. m. 6. & m. 2. ^ Rot. Scot 7 Ric II. m. 6.
" Depositions, pages 179. 186. 192. 205. 237,238, 239.
FAMILY OF aCROPE OF BOLTON.
27
venor' to bear the arms " Azure, a bend Or;" and in August {^"^'
1385, a general proclamation was made throughout the host in of i
Scotland, that all who were interested in the dispute should appear
at Newcastle on Tjne, on the 20th of that month. Lord Scrope
attended accordingly ; but the further consideration of the subject
was adjourned,- and the suit continued for upwards of four years.
The particulars of that memorable trial having been already de-
tailed, it is unnecessary to advert further to the circumstance,
than to observe, that Scrope established his pretensions, and ob-
tained a complete triumph over his opponent.
The few facts, which are recorded of Lord Scrope for some
years after his return from Scotland, will be briefly stated, for they
are neither interesting nor important. He was a Trier of Petitions
in Parliament in the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Ric. IL 1385—1388;^
and in October 1386, was appointed one of the King's permanent
council.* In the next year he was a Commissioner to prosecute an
appeal of high treason against Alexander Neville, Archbishop of
York, and others;» and on the 14th February 1389, John Lord
Cobham, and Lord Scrope, were ordered to sell the lands and
effects of various persons who had been attainted in the preceding
Parliament.^
It is rather remarkable, that Scrope was appointed a com-
missioner on the 24th January, 18 Ric. II. 1395, to decide a
claim of a similar nature to that on which he had been himself
engaged a few years before. A dispute having arisen between
Thomas Baude and Nicholas de Singleton, as to their right to the
arms "Gules, three chevronels Or," several peers and others, of
whom Scrope was one, were commanded by the King to settle the
affair.^ The career of this eminent personage after that period
was not marked by any event of consequence until the deposition
of Richard the Second. He was a Trier of Petitions in Parlia-
' Deposilion, p. 184.
' Ibid. p. 35. and the evidence of the Earl of Oxford among the Additional
DocumenU. ' Rot Pari. iii. 204 a. 215. 228 b. ' Ibid, page 221 a.
» Ibid. p. 2293. « Rot. Claus. 12 Ric, II. m. 19 d.
' Pat. 18 Ric. II. p. a. m. 40.
E 2
28 HISTORY OF THE
Richard, FIRST ment in the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 20th Ric. II.
Lord Scrope • i . i i
OF Bolton. 1389 to 1397.^ In the 14th Ric. II. he was appointed, with other
persons, to treat with commissioners from France and Scotland
concerning a truce which had been made with those countries :^
in July 1391 he was a conservator of the truce which had been
agreed upon at Lenlyngham, between England, France, and
Scotland;' and in August 1393, and again in 1394, he was
employed in preserving the amicable relations with the latter
kingdom.*
In the 21st Ric. II. the proceedings of the Parliament of the
10th year of that monarches reign were reversed, and the Duke
of Gloucester and the Earls of Warwick and Arundel, who were
instrumental in producing certain acts in that assembly, were de-
clared traitors. Among the proceedings so annulled, was the com-
mission to inquire into the state of the royal household, and as
Lord Scrope was one of the peers appointed for that purpose, he
was considered to be so much implicated in the conduct of the
Duke of Gloucester and the two Earls, as to require to be purged
by the King's pardon for the part he took in the transaction.
Letters patent to that effect accordingly passed the Great Seal on
the 29th of November 1397 ;* and at the petition of the Commons,
who urged " the innocence and loyalty of certain honourable
persons named in the commission,^ among whom was the Duke
of York, the Bishop of Winchester, and " Mons' Richard le
Scrop Chivaler,'' it was enacted, that they should be held and
reputed innocent, and that their fame and loyalty should be
considered unimpeached.^ The singular favours which the
eldest son of Lord Scrope received from Richard the Second, as
well as the confidence with which he himself had always been
treated by the King, render it a subject of regret, that his
name should be found among the Peers who assented to the
imprisonment and deposition of their unfortunate sovereign,^ and
» Rot. Pari. iii. 257 b. 277 b. 284 b. 300 b. 309 b. 329 b. 337 b.
« Rot. Scot 14 Ric. II. m. 2. > Ibid. 15 Ric. II. m. 6.
♦ Ibid. 17 Ric. II. m. 7, and 18 Ric. II. m. 6. * Fcedera, iii. pt iv. p. 139.
« Rot. Pari. iii. 349—353. ^ Rot. Pari. 1 Hen. IV. vol. iii. p. 427.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
39
the urgent plea of " state necessity" scarcely shields his memory
from the reproach of ingratitude. His heir apparent, the Earl i
of Wilts, however, sacrificed his life in the service of his royal
benefactor; and his younger son Sir Stephen Scrope adhered to
the dethroned monarch with admirable fidelity. When the judg-
ment which had been pronounced against the Earl of Wilts was
proposed to be confirmed by Parliament on the 19th of November
1 Hen. IV, 1399, " Richard Lord Scrope rose, and with great
" humility, and weeping bitterly, prayed the King that nothing
" which might be done in that Parliament might produce ihe
" disinheritance of himself or of his children. He was then asked
" ' if the arrest and judgment were good or not ?' to which he re-
" plied, 'that he could neither see nor say any thing against the
" said proceedings, but admitted that they were proper, and for the
" advantage of the King and the realm, and that his son was one
*' of the offenders, which he deeply lamented.' The King then ob-
" served, ' that at the time when he claimed the kingdom and crown
" of England, as heir of blood by right line of King Henry, and
" by the right which God had sent him, with the assistance of his
" relations and friends, to recover the kingdom, which was on the
" point of destruction from the want of government, and by neglect
" of the laws and customs of the realm, he desired that no person
" should imagine, that on the pretence of conquest, he wished to
*' disinherit any one of his inheritance, franchise, or other rights,
" nor to dispossess any person of what he enjoyed by the good laws
" and customs of the realm, excepting those who had opposed his
" laudable intentions, and the common welfare of the kingdom.
" Such persons the King considered Sir William Scrope, Sir
" Henry Grcne, and Sir John Bussy, who were blameable for all
" the evils which had befallen the realm, and for this reason, he
" would seize and keep all the lands and tenements which belonged
" to them.' The advice of the Lords Temporal was then asked
" with respect to the proceedings against the said offenders, who
" unanimously agreed that they were proper, and confirmed them.
" The King then declared ' that it was not his intention to take any
" of the lands of which Scrope, Bussy, or Grene were enfeoffed for
30 HISTORY OF THE
Richard, FIRST « the use of Other persoDs, whose rights should be saved therein.'
Lord Scrope
or Bolton. " Moreover the Eling told Sir Richard Scrope, that * he did not
wish to have any of the lands which belonged to him or to his
children then living, but that he then considered him, and had
always deemed him a loyal knight.** The King also declared,
*^ that the Statute which had been made ^ that none should forfeit
^^ after his death &c.'* should remain in force, and that the ordi-
^^ nance made in the present Parliament should not be prejudicial
to that statute, because they were judged and convicted in their
lifetime ^ upon which the said Commons thanked the King for
his just judgment, and God for having given them such a Eling
" and Governor.*^ ^
Lord Scrope does not appear to have interfered in public affairs
after the death of his eldest son ; and only one notice has been
found of him subsequent to that event, which is, that he was
present in Parliament in January 1401, when the Earls of Kent,
Huntingdon, Salisbury, and others, were attainted of high trea-
son.* He had then attained his seventy-third year; and being
at his Manor of Pissho, in Hertfordshire, made his Will on
the 2nd of August 1400. As that document throws light upon
his affairs and character, and is intrinsically curious, a copy of it
is subjoined:
« TESTAMENTUM D'NI RICARDI LESCROP MILITIS
ET D*NI DE BOLTON.»
In Dei nomine Amen Ego Ricus Lescrop Diis de Bolton bone
memorie die Lune secundo die Augusti anno dni mitto ccccj"°
[cccc"***] apud Pyshoo condo testamentum meum in hunc modum.
In primis do & lego aiam meam deo & ^te Marie sancte Marie
> Rot Pari. iii. 453. « Rot Pari. iii. 459.
» Ex Registro Anindell in Bibl. Lambeth asservato, f. 201, a. The copy
of this Will in the Lambeth Register has been collated with the copy in the
Register at York, and the principal variations in the latter are placed within
brackets.
* As the second of August fell on a Monday in the year 1400, the date in the
copy in the Register at York appears to be correct.
FAAULY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
31
Anne [tie Marie sancte Anne] is omnib5 Sanctis 8c corpus meum ^'"
Deo placente ad sepeliend in Men Abbie sancte Agathe jux" of I
RichemoDtt. Item volo qd omnia debita mea vcraciP obata sen
pbanda primo &, p'nci" psolvantur [solvant'j & qd 6ib3 Ei singulis
qualescumq, futinl qui vel que possunt veraci? probare q3 quicq'm
ab eis p extorcionem seu aliquo alio mode incongruo fieo vel
habui de bonis meis satisfiat plenarie & indilate. Item lego
predicte Abbie meli^ vestimentum meum cum omnib3 apparatib^
cum alba almeta & stola broudata & cum meliori turribulo meo
cum meliori calice meo' & duob3 candelab's meliorib3 deauratis
cum duob; cruettis deauratis. una [cii] pva campana deaurata
Gi hoc |) principal! meo. ac eliam eidem Abbie xl. ti. [quadra^
giata libras.j Item lego Jolianni Abbi ejusdem Abbie [Abbathie
^ce] unu ciphum cum coopculo quem quondam tui ex dono diii
Principis.- Ita qd post mortem ipius Johannis remaneat cujtt AbBi
predicte Abbie imppetuum. item lego cuitt monacho [canoico]
ejusdem AbBie xiij. s. iiij.d. Jofie de Homyngtoii excepto cui lego
centum solid ad libros emendos. Item lego Abbie de Egleston
XX marc. Item Abbie de Marryng* xx marc. Item ad emenda-
tionem capelle de Ellertoii sup Swale xx marc nisi p me dum
vixlo fulit emendata. Item Prioratui de Bradley xx marc & ves-
timentum meum integrum do camaca^ [cu candica] viridi. Item
Abbie de Jervaux centum s. Item Abbie de CoPham c. s. Item
cuitt eccie pochiali ubi pochianus sum infra Richeraound shire
XX. a. ad aliquod ornamentum emend ad op^ eccie predicte p
dispoem parochianoif. Item ad emendationem pontis de Wjnse-
lawe xl.ti. Item frib3 minoribj de Riehemound x.ti. Item
Hospital! sancti Nicholai jux' Ricfe xx.s. Item cuitt Anachorite
apud Hic6 Brempstoun [Brenyston*] Kirkeby Wysk & Wath
xiij. s. iiij.d. Item cuitt ordini fratrum de Novo Castro xx.s.
Item ffib^ de Hertilpole xx.s. Item ffibj de Yai^ xx.s. Item
cuitt domui fratrum de Karliolo Penreth & Appelby xx.s. Item
frib^ Minorib5 de Eboij xl.a. Item cuitt domui alioij trium
ordinum [de] Eboij xx.a. Item cuitt ordini frm de Doncastr &
I " Meo" ia omitted in ihe York Register.
' Apparently Edward the Black Prince.
' The words " de camaca'' are omitted to the York Register.
* i. r. Brotnpton upon Swale.
32 HISTORY OF THE
W sl-ionr TykiU XX. s. It' cuilt domui fratrum de Scarburgh Be^ley &
OK Bolton. KyDgeston sug Hutt XX. 8. Item domui de Chartehows [Carte-
house] apud Kyngestoun sup Hult x marc. Item fratrib3 de
Northallerton xx. s. Item cuitt prisonario in gaot Castroif Eboif
Nov! Castri Dunolm Karlioli Richemoundie & Appelbeye ad
obitum meum existencium ij.s. Item cuitt tenenti meo infra
Richemoundshire ad obitum meum existenti claudo ceco vel
impoteilti in cubiculo jacenti xiij.s. iiij.d. Item cuitt ceco
infra Richemoundshire in quibuscumq^ villis iijs. iiij.d. qui
mendicus vel paup fu?it. Item viginti ti ad distribuend in?
paupes [paupculos] tenentes meos infra Richemoundshire ad
obitum meum existentes p dispoem & discrecoem executorum
meoif. Item cuitt capellano pochiali seu anni^sario vel Canta^
rie in ecciis pochialib3 infra Richemoundshire ad obitum meum
cantantib3 [canentib;] & comorantib3 ij.s. Item Prioratui Sancti
Martini xiij.s. iiij.d. Item cuitt monacho Abbie de Jervaux.
cuitt monacho [canoico] Ab^ie de Gotham & Abbie de Egles-
ton. iij.s. iiij.d. Item matrici eccie mee [cathedrali] sci Petri
Eboif ad novum opus xl.ti. Item [lego] Rogero^ filio meo
^arissimo & heredi unum par de PaSnost^'s de Corall [cu mo-
nilo] monili^ aureo que quondam fu^unt dni pris mei cum una
cruce de auro qua usus fui & portavi cum bndiccione omnipotentis
Dei gloriosissime virginis Marie %te Anne oim sanctoif & mea.
Item pdco Rogero p capella de Boltoun in Castro secundum
vestimentum meum integrum cum scdo calice & turribulo scdo
cum duob3 scdis cruettis campana & paxbredde. Item eidem p
principali caifia lectum meum de velvet broudat' cum quatupr
costers [costis] de ope de arras [arrays] & quatuor tapitz [tapet]
ejusdem colons lecti predicti cum linthraminib3 viz. unum p de
Reyns cum ma?as [matresse] blankitz [blankectz] & canvas p una
vice pdco lecto ptinent\ Item pelvem meam rotundam scdm cum
aquareo de argento p ^icta camera. Item p aula ittm aulam
meam viridem cum griffons textam cum manutelt armoif meoif
[mantellis armaif meaif] xij discos. & xij salsaria argenti. unum
salarium deauratum cooptum . unum p pelv de argento coopt' cum
' " Rogero" omitted in the York Register.
' Omitted in the York Register.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 33
arm meis & dni de Nevytt in fundo.^ Item duas ollas argenteas ^ Richard, first
butKa melior^. Item unu ciphum de argento cooptum vocatum of Bolton.
le Constable coppe. Item unum masere vocaf Spang. Item unam
coupam ^cum uno aquario deaurato & enamellat^ quam coupam^
cum aquario pdco fiui ex dono domini Comitis Arundellie ^ duos
discos p elemosina de argento cum armis meis & armis Comitis
SufiT quos Kui ex legatione ^dicti Comitis^ sub tali conditione qd
sep remaneant rectis heredib3 meis in memoriale ^dcoif Comitum.
Item p garderoba meliorem gladium meum cum omnib; arma.
tuns meis artelliuriis & tentys [artiris et tentes] tam p corpore
meo q^m p munitione castri. Item in omnib^ domib3 offic castri
pdci omnia vasa enea ferrea plumbea lignea & alia utensilia &
omnia legata sibi ^dicta lego sub tali conditione qd nulla princi-
palia petat & ali? non salva bndicdone Dei & mea. Item lego
pdco Rogero duo carcatoria argentea & nappariam de ope p
principali tabula in aula de Bolton ad semel coopiend cum sur-
nappes & toaitt [towale] de ^dco ope & p sex tabulis in aula ^dca
nappariam lineam oompetentem ad semel coopiend. Item lego
Stephano Lescrop filio meo scdm gladium meum^ cum bndiccione
mea & ult^ ea que sibi^ [sup] prius dedi xij discos argenteos xij
salsaria duo carcatoria [carattoria] duas pelves cum aquariis
argenteis p aula duas ollas argenteas p but¥ia unu sallarium
cooptum. aulam meam cum poplers textam & lectum meum in-
tegrum cum cos?s de rubeo cum poplers & armis meis broudat'
& iiij tapetz de rubeo text^ cum armis meis. Item eidem Stephano
» John Lord Neville of Raby, by bis Will dated 31st August 1386, bequeathed
'' Domino Ricardo Lescrop ij pelves cum ij lavatoriis argenteis, et j magnum
calicem cum patera/' — Hutchinson's Northumberland, vol. iii. p. 265. /
' The words '' cum uno aquario deaurato et enamellat' quam coupam'' are
omitted in the York Register.
^ He was executor of the Will of Richard Earl of Arundel in 1392, who
bequeathed him this cup in the following words — ** Je donne et devise a Mons'
Richard le Scrop un coupe ove un ewer." — Nichols's Royal Wills, p. 142.
* Lord Scrope was also one of the executors of William de Ufford Earl of
Suffolk, in 1381.
* It appears from the Will of Sir Stephen Scrope, the legatee, that this sword
had belonged to King Edward the Third.
« Omitted in the York Register.
VOL. II. F
34 HISTORY OF THE
RicHARD,FiR8T nappaiiain novam de ope cum manuPgiis longis ad semel coopiend
OF Bolton/* p*ncipalem tabulam & nappariam novam lineam competentem ad
coopiend semel iiij®'" alias tabulas aule pdicte cum surnapp &
toailt p principal! tabula p^dca. Item Isabelle carissime filie mee'
unum psalHum. Item Margarete filie mee uxori Rogeri Lescrop
filii mei unil ciphum deauratu cooptum duas pelves argenteas cum
aquariis unum p de paSnos^s de auro cum monili aureo. It'
Milicente carissime filie mee ^ unum ciphum cooptum deauratum
& unum p de pa^nosSs cum monili aureo. It' domino Stephano
Lescrop consanguineo meo^ unum ciphum deauratum cooptum.
Item domino Archiepo Eboif carissio filio [kmo patri et filio]*
meo meliorem ciphum meum de murreo scitt maser. Item do-
mino [Jotii] Lescrop ^ consanguineo meo unum ciphum deauratum
cooptum. Item domino Henrico Lescrop consanguineo meo^
[unam] zonam argenteam deauratam. Item domino Henr Fitz
Hugh'' consanguineo meo secundum melius meum Spiceplate
argent! cum duab3 pelvib5 [pelvis] & duob5 aquariis argenteis
cum armis meis in fundo. Item lego domino JoK! Tybbey® vj
discos argenteos & sex salaria argentea unum ciphu de argento
cooptum [cii armis meis et armis dn! Brian! de Stapilton sup
manutentii cooptorij, j salarm de argento cooptu] & xxiiij. coclearea
argentea. Item lego eidem domino Johanni lectum meum inte-
grum de rubeo cum buttirflies broudaf cum armis meis cum
testuf costeres & curtynes eidem lecto ptinent\ Item lego Johanni
* Apparently Isabel, the widow of his eldest son, William Earl of Wiltshire.
' Probably his daughter-in-law Milicent, the wife of his son Sir Stephen le
Scrope. ' Stephen second Lord Scrope of Masham.
* See the Memoir of the Archbishop of York in a subsequent page.
* Sir John Scrope, younger son of Henry first I^rd Scrope of Masham.
^ Henry eldest son of Stephen second Lord Scrope of Masham, afterwards third
Lord Scrope of Masham.
' Henry Lord Fitz Hugh, whose mother was Joan daughter of Henry first Lord
Scrope of Masham.
* Apparently the John de Tybbey, Clerk, who was one of the Procurators and
Attomies for Lord Scrope in his trial with Sir Robert Grosvenor. — Depositions,
pages 31. 90. 344. He was a legatee in the Will of Sir Stephen Scrope, and one
of his executors ; and one of the executors of Roger second Lord Scrope of Bolton.
Tybbey lost his life in consequence of a quarrel with the second husband of Roger
Lord Scrope's widow, arising from his zeal for the interest of the Scrope family. —
See a subsequent page.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. ■»
de Gunwardby' & Wittmo Mounceux utriq^ eoit decern marcas. Ricii*iid.i
Item lego Johanni Hamod xl. s. Item lego Thome de Ellerbek ;^°bo*„"
UDum argenteum ciphum cum cooptorio. Item lego Johanni
Grenelane sx marcas & unum ciphum dt argento cooplum cum
certa sup'scriptione sup cooptorium. Item lego dno Wittmo
Megre x marcas. Item lego dno Johanni Mayn dno Johanni [de]
Chestouut & domino Rico de HundyngdoFi ca[>ellani9 cuitt eoi(
quinq, marcas. Item lego Wiltmo del Boterie & Stephano Malyn
utriq, eoi} decem marcas. Item lego Thome Cook & Thome del
Kychyn utriq^ eoi^ centum s. Item lego Henrico de Bellerby
Allexo Ferour utriq, [eoi{] quinq,marc. Item lego Thome Pollard
& Johanni de Benyngton utrit^ eoij xl s. Item lego Johanni del
Chambr xl.s. Item lego Thome de Keldholm Thome Forster de
Wynsley & Johanni Maisl'pcario de Pyshoo cuitt eo:( xx 5. Item
lego Wittmo Pountfreit decem marcas. Item lego Stephano de
Burgoyne c s. Item lego [Henf] del Kychyn Jotii del Kychyn
Johanni Payn Johanni del Bachous & Wittmo del Chambr cuitt
eoi} xl.s. Item lego Thome de Langeley & Witto Gushauke
utri(j,eoi( xx.s. Item lego cuitt pagetto in coquina mea ad obitum
I existenti xiijs. iiijd. Volo tamen & principalis lego qd si
contingat aliquem vel aliquam cui supius aliqua legavi ante obi-
tum meum obire legatione mea scam ecciiam quomodott tangente
plenarie excepta & debilibj paupib3 qd suma sive poriio sic legala
ad residuum bonoi{ meoi( totalit ref tat'. Item volo & p'nci*" lego qd
sidebita mea veroci? probata vel male aliqua quesita ^)ut ad pHnci-
pium istius [ipsius] testamenti dictu est dc bonis meis ultra legata
mea ;^ominata plene psolvi non possunt qd de jJdictis legatis
^portion aliV ret'het' & ea principalis psolvantur. Item volo Si
lego qd residuum omniu bono;} meoti distribuanl' k disponant' in
edificationem & plenariam repacionem donius mee p paupib3 meis
apud Wensley edificand & deo danle repand & pficienil si p me-
ipm dum vixto non fu'fit plenarie edifiiata 8; repata & hoc scdm
ordinationem meam inde faciend post cujus quidem domus edi-
ficationem S; plenariam [plenarie] repationem scdm ordinationem
meam sup'dictam do & lego residuum omniii bonoi^ meo^ magro
Si sociis suis Collegii see Trinitatis de Wjnslawe in relevationem
' John de Gunwardbj was aiiollierof Lord Scrope's Attornies and Procuratora
IS tailed in tlie proceedings, John de Gunwardeby "donii-
cdlum." — Depositiuiii, ^. 31.
36 HISTORY OF THE
r & ad opus Collegii [sup'] predicti. Et ad omnia ista complenda
& fidelit fficieiida ordino & constituo execulores meos p magna
gratitudinis aft'ectione Rogeruni Lescrop filium meum & here-
dem & Stephanum Lescrop filium meum fratrem ejusdem Bogeri
Bub bndictione mea dnm Johannem [de] Tybbey cticuni Johem
de Gunwardby & Johannem Grenelane. In cujus rei testimoniu
huic ^tj testamento meo sigillum meu apposui. Dat' die locu Si
anno 3ni sup'dict. Item lego Rogero filio meo predco melius
meum Spiceplate & scdra missale meum cum porthors [porteus]
meo quo usus fui ad dicend matutinas meas & vesgas BiC.
Tenore presencium nos Thomas pmissione divina &c. notum
facimua uni^sis qd ultimo die mensis Maii anno dni mitl:mo cccc'""
iij" in man'?io iiro de Mortlake 'probatum fuit coram nobis testa-
tnentum dni Ricardi Lescrop domini de Boltoun defuncti presen-
tibj annexuni idemq, testamentum pro eo & ex eo qd dictus deft*
nonnulla bona mobilia & immobilia in diesis dioc nre Cantuarieii
provincie dum vixit optinuit cujus ptextu ipius testamenti appro-
batio Ge insinuatio ac bonoi[ administrationis comissio compoti
calculi sive ratiocinii administrationis hujusmoi auditio & finalis
liberatio ab eadem ad nos solum k insolidum & non ad alium nobis
inferiorem judicem de prerogativa eccie nre Cantuarien ac con-
siietudine laudabili lie psc'pt' Se optenta necnon a tempore 6c p
tempus cuj^ contr'ii memoria hominu non existit pa'^' & inconcusse
observata dinoscuntur notorie ptincre g nos virtute prerogative
predicte ap^batum fuit & insinuatum ac legitime pronunciatum
4> eodem. administracioq, oiiiiu bono;; dictum testamentum con-
cernenciu ubicuniq, infra nfam provinciam Cantuarien existentium
dilectis in Xpo filjis Domino Rogero Lescrop filio & lieredi dicti
defuncti domino Johanni Tybbey Ctico 8c Johanni Grenelade
executoribj in dicto testaniento nominatis de fideli inventario
omniii bonoij hujusmoi conficiendo k ea bene k fidelit jux' ipius
defuncti ultimam voluntalem adminisfndo nobisq, de St sup ad-
ministratione sua hujusmoi fidelem compotum cum sup hoc con-
grue fu?int requisiti reddendo ad sancta dei ev'ngelia jurat' com-
missa exlitit in debita forma juris Reser\ata nobis potestate
L'ommittendi administ'tionem hujusmoi alijs executoribj in eodem
testamento etiam nominatis cum earn veiUint legitime admissuf.
in cujus rei testimonium &c. Dat' die loco mense & anno dni
s'. Et nre translationis anno septimo."
I
FAMILY OF SCROPF. OF DOLTON.
Lord Scrope terminated his long and distinguished career on RicHtu
the 30th May, 4 Hen. IV. 1403,' aged about seventy-five. Pedi- of &ii.«Ik!"
grees differ as to the names of his wives and children, for, accord-
ing to some authorities, he was twice married ; first to Blanch,
daughter of Sir William de la Pole; and secondly, after the
2nd Ric. II., to Margaret the daughter of Sir John Montfort,'
whilst other genealogies assert that his second wife was a daughter
of Spenser.' That he married a daugh ter of Sir William de
la Pole appears from the Deposition of Amand de Monceaux,
Esq. who gives the following curious account of his matrimonial
afiairs. At an early perioii of his life, he made proposals for thtt
daughter of Sir Robert Hilton, but the terms not being accepted,
he married a daughter of Sir William de la Pole; at which
Hilton was so enraged, that he said, — " I am glad he did not
" marry my daughter, for I have heard that he is not a ' grand
" gentilhomme.' " To which Sir John Hasethorp, who was then
more than a hundred years old, replied : " Sir, say not so, for I
" assure you, on ray soul, he is descended from ' grauntz gentils
" hommes" from the time of the Conquest." * That Lord Scrope
married a daughter of Sir William de la Pole is provetl by other
evidence. In the Parliament of the 10th Ric. II. 1st October
1386, Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk, then ChanceUor, ap-
pointed " Mons' Richard le Scrop, son frere en loi," to reply
for him to certain charges which were brought against him.*
Whether he had a second wife is extremely doubtful ; but sup-
posing this were the case, his sons must have been the issue of
his first marriage,^ because Blanch de la Pole did not die until
after 1378, before which year tbey were certainly bom. Lord
' Inq. p. tnorl. 4 Hen. IV. No. 3. — " Jutatorea dicunt quod Ricardus le Scrope
th'r obiit 30° die Mail ultimo prelcrito. [The Inquisition was lakea on the Wed-
nesday before Michaelmas day.] " El quod Rogerus le Scrop' ch'r est filius
et hares ejusdem Ricardi propinquior et tctatis .xxn. annoruro & amplius."
' Blore's Rutland. ' MS. in the College of Anns, marked "Picture of our
Lady." ' Deposition, p. 134. ' Rol. Pari. iii. aiC b.
• Blore, in the " History of Rutland," p. 5. makea Roger to have been the
son of Blanch de la Pole, and William Earl of Wiltshire, Richard Ari:hbishcp of
Canterbury, and Sir Stephen Scrope to have been ihe sana of Margarel Montfort,
i
SB HISTORY OF THE
"" Scrape was buried in the Abbey of St. Agatha, near Richmond
in Yorkshire, where a tomb was erected to his memory.'
His character can only be judged of from the offices he filled;
for very little indeed is known of those {>ersonftl traits which form
the most satisfactory materials for biography. As a soldier,
his merits are evinced by his long and arduous services. With
the exception of Poictiers, there is scarcely a campaign or a battle
of any consequence, between 1346 and 1385, a period of nearly forty
years, at which he was not present, acquiring, to use the words of
a contemporary, "graund honor" on every occasion. His talents
and sagacity as a statesman were as remarkable as his valour. He
was repeatedly selected for diplomatic missions ; and in the reign
of Richard the Second was continually chosen to perform par-
liamentary duties, either as a. trier of petitions, or as a commis-
sioner for the execution of some delicate and important object.
But the strongest proof of his abilities and integrity is, his having
been once Treasurer, and twice Chancellor of England ; and the
independent manner in which he is stateil to have conducted him-
self in that elevated station proves thai he possessed great firmness
of mind. But the general opinion which was entertained of his
worth is shewn by other circumstances. No less than four peers,
the Earl of Arundel, the Earl of March, the Earl of Suffolk, and
Ralph Lord Bassett of Drayton, appointed him the executor, or
the supervisor of their Wills ; and two of them bequeathed him a
silver cup in testimony of their esteem.- All the evidence which
is extant respecting Lord Scrope tends therefore to justify the
impression, that he was one of the most distinguished persons of
his times ; brave, sagacious, prudent, and highly esteemed by his
contemporaries. His life seems, for many years, to have been
little chequered by vicissitudes of fortune, and full of honours
himself, he saw one of his sons attain the highest dignities ; nor
was it until the death of his eldest son that any serious misfor-
tune befell his house. Few incidents can be imagined of a more
affecting description than the scene in Parliament when the at-
tainder of the Earl of Wiltshire was confirmed. Rising from
his seat, with his eyes streaming with tears, the venerable peer
' Will of hisson Sir Stephen Scrope. ' Test. Vet i. IIJ, 113. 115.126.133.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF I
39
implored that the proceedings might not affect the inheritance of J*"^'
himself or his other children ; and after admitting the justice of the «' B
sentence, and deploring the conduct of his son, the unhappy father
was consoled by his sovereign, who deigned to assure him tliat nei-
ther his interests nor those of his children then living should suffer
from it, for that he had always considered, and still deemed him
a " loyal knight."' It has been shewn that Lord Scrope did not
survive this event more than three years, and his decease may
probably have been hastened by a circumstance so well calculated
to embitter his latter days. With the feelings of the age, he was a
considerable benefactor to the church, and among other donations
was the gift in the 16th Ric. II. of an annual rent of 100/, for the
maintenance of ten additional Canons Regular and two Canons Secu-
lar in the Abbey of St. Agatha.- He founded a chantry in his castle
of Bolton in the same year, of six priests, one of whom was to be
Warden, and endowed it with an annual income of 43/. Gs. (W. ; ' lie
obtained a licence to make the parish church of Wenslay collegiate ;
and supported a priest in the chapel of St, Anne, and another in
the chapel of St. Oswald at Bolton,* facts which, together with the
many charitable bequests in his Will, shew that
his religious feelings were fervent and sincere.
11 " I Richard Lord Scrope bore
the Arms of Scrope entire;
and as appears, from his seal
attached to a deed dated 22nd
May 22 Edw. III. 1348,' his
Crest was a crab issuing out
of a coronet.
Lord Scrope had four s
3. Stepbsk. 4. Richard.
s,« 1. WILLIAM. 2. ROGER.
I Rot. Pari. iii. 353. See page 29. ' Pal. 16 Ric. II. p. 3. m. 11.
' Pat. 16 Hie. II. p. 2. m. 4. ' Pat. 1 Hen. IV. p. 6. m. 2.
'' Presened among the muiiicneuls at Bolton Ha!!-
" Lotd Scrope also mentions in his Will hia daughlers Isabel and Wilicent.
The peraons alluded lo were probably his daughters-in-law, Isabel the widow of ilie
Earl of WilM, and Milicent ilic wife of his third son Sir Stephen Scrope.
40 HISTORY OF THE
WiLLUH SIR WILLIAM SCROPE, K. G. Earl op Wiltshire, is
Earl ofWilts.
usually but erroneously called the second son of Richard Lord
Scrope.^ The precise time of his birth has not been discovered,
and the earliest notice of him is about the year 1362, when he
accompanied a body of the Teutonic knights of Prussia, to fight
against the infidels in Lithuania, and thence to Venice, near which
city he served in the retinue of the Duke de Duras.^ In 1369 he
was with the army under the Duke of Lancaster which ravaged the
Pais de Caux in Normandy,^ and was again with that chieftain
when he marched from Calais to Bordeaux, in 1373/ Nothing
appears to be known of him after this time until May 1383, when,
being then a knight, he was appointed Seneschal of Acquitaine.^
Shortly afterwards a grant was made out of the customs for his sup-
port,^ and in the 9th Ric. II. he was constituted governor of the
Castle of Cherbourgh, which office he held in the 13th Ric. IIJ In
that year it appears that he and his followers committed some offence
against the Bishop of Durham, which on a reference was compro-
mised, by his agreeing to offer in his own person a Jewel to the
shrine of St. Cuthbert ; and on the 26th January 1390, the King
ordered that the said Jewel should not be of less value than
600/.® As Seneschal of Acquitaine he was directed to conclude
a peace with the King and Queen of Castile, in the 14th Ric. 11.^
and remained in Gascony until March 1392, as he was then one of
the commissioners to receive the homage of the Count of Armignac,
and to conclude a treaty of alliance with that prince.^® About this
time he established himself in the favour of his Sovereign, from
whom he soon afterwards received the highest honours ; and what-
ever may have been his faults, he had at least the merit of display-
ing unshaken fidelity towards his royal benefactor.
Sir William Scrope was appointed Vice Chamberlain of the
Kings's Household in the 16th Ric. II. : ^^ in the same year he pur-
1 He is expressly called the eldest son in the deposition of Sir Robert Con-
stable, p. 136. ' Deposition, page 172. ' Ibid, page 166.
* Ibid, pages 136. 193. 210. 238. « Rot. Vase. 6 Ric. II. m. 28.
« Pat. 7 Ric. II. 7 Rot. Franc. 13 Ric. II. m. 19. FcBdera, iii. pMv. p. 43.
8 Pat. 1 3 Ric. II. Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 51. * FcBdera, iii. p' iv. p. 61.
»*> Rot. Vase. 15 Ric. II. m. 2. »» Walsingham, p. 385.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
41
chased the sovereignty of the lale of Man from the Earl of Salis- ^
bury,' and on the 10th March 1394i, when the truce was confirmed
with France, " Monsieur Guilliam le Scrop" is recorded to have
assented to the proceedings " pour le Seigneurie de Man" as one
of the " allies" of the King of England.^ A bond is extant dated
29 August 1393, in which, by the style of " William le Scrop
Seigneur de Man et des Isles,"^ he acknowledges himself indebted
to Richard WTiityngton, Citizen and Mercer of London, in the
sum of IGGl. 25. Id., which was to be repaid on the feast of St.
Martin next ensuing.'
Having been retained to serve the King for life, with the
yearly fee of 200/. he obtained a grant of the town, barton, and
Castle of Marlborough in Wiltshire in the 17th Ric. II. in lieu of
that annuity,^ In July 1395, being then the King''s Chamberlain,
he was one of the personages selected by Richard the Second to
negociate his marriage with Isabel of France,* for which purpose
Scrope and his colleagues proceeded to Paris. Shortly afterwards
John Waltham, Bishop of London, appointed Sir William Scrope
his executor, and bequeathed his best and most valuable vestment
to the church of Salisbury, in order that prayers might be said for
Scrope's prosperity during his life, and for his soul after his
decease; but the motive for this proof of his good opinion does
not appear.^
Sir William Scrope was employed on a diplomatic mission to
France in the 19th Ric. 11. 1396,' and was Governor of the CasUes
of Beaumaris and Queensburgh in the year following." In 1397,
he was constituted Chamberlain of Ireland ;3 and on the 5th
> Ibid, and Olterbouroe, p. 183. The words are, the lale of Man — " cuui
' Fiedera, iii. p' iv. p. 95.
' Harleian Charter?, 56 A. 22. Whitjnglon was probably the renowned "Lord
Major of London town."
' RoLOrig.lTRic.il. r. 1.
» Fcedeta, iii. pi iv. p. 108. 111. 112. 120.
' See a Copy of ihe Bishop of Salisbury's Will, dated in September 1395, in
Ihe Lansdowiie MS. 207, E. f. 602. 609.
^ Rot. Frauc. 19 Ric. II. m. 19.
' Pat, 20 Ric. II. p. 3, m. 3,ajid p. 1, m, 25. ' Pat. 21 Ric.II.p. 1, in. 30.
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42 HISTORY OF THE
WiLLiABi^ August, being then with the King at Nottingham, he was one
EaRLOfWiLTS. 111. t 11« -iTxl
of the persons who debvered an appeal of treason against the Duke
of Gloucester and the Earls of Arundel and Warwick, which ap-
peal he prosecuted in the Parliament at Westminster in Septem-
ber following.^ The Earl of Warwick being declared guilty,
he was committed to the custody of Sir William Scrope and Sir
Stephen his brother, to be taken to the Isle of Man, and there
kept a prisoner.^
Probably in reward of his services on this occasion. Sir William
. Scrope was created Earl of Wiltshire on the 29th September, 21
Ric. II. 1397, without ever having been a Baron. The influence
which he possessed is strongly shewn by the limitation being to
" his heirs male for ever ;^ ^ whilst in the case of each of the
other peers on whom honours were then conferred, the dignity was
limited to the heirs male of the body of the grantee, a distinc-
tion which may be attributed to the intention of opening the
succession to Scrope^s brothers, or his other collateral heirs male,
in the event of his dying without leaving male issue. He was
elected a Knight of the Garter shortly afterwards,^ and obtained
various lordships which had been forfeited by the Earls of
Arundel and Warwick : ^ he was also appointed Justice of Chester
and North Wales,^ and was constituted Captain of Calais and
Constable of Guisnes, the former oflice being granted to him for
fifteen, and the latter for ten years.*^ A still higher dignity,
however, awaited him, for on the 17th September, 22 Ric. II.
1398, he was made Treasurer of England.^
The Earl of Wilts was repeatedly present in Parliament in the
21st Ric. II., and was chosen proxy of the prelates and clergy to
* Foedera, iii. p»iv. pp. 132. 135. and Rot. Pari. iii. 374.
• Rot. Pari. iii. 380 b.
' See the Charter printed in the Fifth Peerage Report, p. 117.
^ He had robes of the Grarter, of scarlet cloth embroidered with the motto, pre-
pared for the feast of St. George 22nd Ric. II. April 23, 1398. — ^Anstis' Introduction
to the Register of the Order of the Garter, p. 13, from the Wardrobe accounts of
that year.
» Pat. & Rot. Orig. 21 Ric. II. « Pal. 21 Ric. II. p. 2. m. 9.
' Rot. Franc. 22 Ric. II. m. 6. * Rot. Orig.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
express their assent to the ordinances then made,' which he, with ^'"
other peers, swore to observe ;'■ and about this time he took a promi-
nent part in obtaining the repeal of a patent which had been grant-
ed to the Duke of Hereford, securing the possession of whatever
might devolve upon him by inheritance during his banishment.'
Richard the Second's attachment to the Earl was specially mani*
fested by his Will, dated 7 April 1399, in which he bequeatheti
him two thousand marks, and a cup of gold of the value of twenty
pounds, and appointed him one of his executors. Though Bcrope
was retained to serve the King in his expedition to Ireland in June
in that year, with forty men-at-arms and one hundred mounted
archers, he did not accompany his Majesty; and on the 11th
July, Edmund Duke of York, the Custos of England, appointed
the Earl of WOts with Sir John Bussy, Sir Henry Grene, and Sir
William Bagot, keepers of WalUngford Castle; on the news of
Lancaster's invasion, in which fortress the young Qui
placed for security.* Resistance to the usurper proved unavailing;
«id on the dispersal of Richard's few adherents, the Earl, with
Sir Henry Orene and Sir John Bussy, sought shelter in the
castle of Bristol. Being compelled to surrender, they proposed
terms, which were accepted, and by which their Uves were pro-
mised them ; but, notwithstanding these conditions, the Earl of
Wilts, Grene, and Bussy, fell a sacrifice to popular fury, and
were beheaded about September 1399, without even the form of
a trial, " ex clamore importuno vulgi et comitatus ut publici
bostes rcgni."^ It was one of the first measures of Henry the
Fourth's parliament to attaint them, when the EarVa honours and
estates were forfeited to the Crown, He died without issue, and
the fear which his father expressed that his attainder might affect
the property of his brothers has been adverted to.'' The Earl of
Wilts did not escape the odium which usually attends a royal
favourite : he was generally disliked ; and Walsingham ' describes
him in these words ; " Vir quo in humano genere de facili
' Eot. Pari. iii. 359.
* Fadera,iii. p' if. p.lfll.
See page 29.
' Ibid. 356. ' Ibid. 372, 373.
) Otteiboume, p.204. Monkof Eve$liam,p.l50.
44 HISTORY OF THE
WiLUAM, non invenietur nequior aut crudelior."" He married Isabel, who,
EarlofWilts. ...
according to some authorities, was one of the daughters and
coheirs of Robert Lord Tiptoft ;^ but this is proved to be erro-
neous by the facts, that Lord Tiptoft had no daughter called
Isabel, and that Elizabeth Tiptoft, with whom she has been con-
founded, was married in the 8th Ric. II. to Sir Philip le Despen-
ser, who died in 1423.* There is reason to believe that the
Countess of Wiltshire was the daughter, and eventually coheiress,
of Sir Maurice Russell of Dorsetshire ; that she married to her
second husband Thomas de la Ryviere, and had by him a son,
Maurice de la Ryviere ; that she married, thirdly, Stephen Hayt-
feld, Esq. and was by him mother of two daughters, Joan the
wife of Drue Barentyne, and Elizabeth the wife of John Wenlok ;
and that she died on the 1st of May 1437.' By the name of
" Isabell que fu la femme William le Scrop,^' she presented a
petition to the King and Parliament in 1401, stating that from
the sudden death of her husband, he had made no provision for
her ; that, as all his property had been seized, she was left " si
povre et si dissolat que unque n^y avoit semblable de son estat ;^^
and that, in consequence of her destitute condition, the King had
been pleased to grant her an annuity of two hundred marks, but
which had not been paid for a whole year. She therefore prayed
that she might have dower of her husband^s lands ; but the King
granted her instead, one hundred pounds per annum, payable out
of the Exchequer.*
The Earl of Wilts is stated by some of the Deponents to have
borne the Arms of his family with a label, the colour of which is
not specified ; and this statement is corroborated by the seal
attached to his bond in 1393,^ which is in beautiful preserva-
tion. According to a Roll of Arms^ which was apparently com-
' Leland's ItiDerary. ' Esch. 2 Hen. VI. No. 31.
» See Escheats 10 Hen. VI. n. 39.; 15 Hen. VI. n. 47.; 16 Hen. VI. n. 52.
In that of the 15 Hen. VI. she is mentioned as '' Isabella Domina le Scrope.''
* Rot. Pari. iii. 483 b.
^ See page 41 antea. An engraving of the seal to that deed is given in the text.
* Now in the possession of the Rev. John Newling, Canon of Lichfield.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
piled in the reign of Richard the
Second, the Earl of Wilts, who is
Mong^ William le
Scrop," bore Quar-
terly, 1st am^ 4th,
the arms of the Isle
of Man, with a. label
of three points Ar-
gent; and 2nd and
3rd, Azure, a bend
Or, with a label of
three points Gules. The Earl adopt-
ed a different Crest from that of his
family, namely a plume of feathers
Azure issuing from a coronet Or,'
which became tlie Crest of the Scropes
of Bolton, whilst the Masham branch continued to
2. ROGER, SECOND LORD SCROPE op Bolton, the
second son of Richard, first Lord Scrope, will be noticed in a
subsequent page.
3. SiH Stephen Scrope, of Bentley in the county of York,
third son of Richard Lord Scrope, is first mentioned as having
served in the expedition with his father under the Duke of Lancas-
ter in France in July 1373 ;• and the next notice of him is, that he
s in the army which invaded Scotland in 1384,' From the simi-
larity of his baptismal name, he has been confounded by Dugdale
and other writers with Stephen second Lord Scrope of Masham,
and many of the following circumstances have been erroneously
attributed to his noble kinsman and contemporary. In the 20th
Ric. II. the safe custody of the Earl of Warwick, when banished to
the Isle of Man,* was entrusted to him and to his brother the Earl
■ See the seal engraved in ihe text from a bond, dated 29 August 1393, pre-
served in the British Museum, Uarleiao Charters 56, A 22.
' Depositions, p. 136. 195. 238. * Ibid. p. 238. ' Hot. Pari. iii. 3B0,
^
46 HISTORY OF THE
Sir Stephen of Wilts ; and in the same year he was appointed Justice of
SCROPE
Munster, Leinster, and Uriell in Ireland, where, it is said, he
disgusted both the English and Irish by his maladministration
of justice. If he imitated his brothers in abusing the favour of
his sovereign. Sir Stephen is entitled at least to the praise of
having resembled them in fidelity to him in his misfortunes.
When Richard the Second took refuge in Conway Castle,
Scrope accompanied him, and was present at the conference be-
tween the Duke of Lancaster and the King at that place/ on
which occasion he bore the sword of state.^ The historian who
relates this anecdote describes Scrope as '^ a knight right worthy
in arms, valiant and bold C^ and a contemporary writer presents
a melancholy picture of Richard and his attendants, shortly be-
fore he fell into the hands of the Duke of Lancaster. — " Thus
^^ spake King Richard to the Earl of Salisbury, to the Bishop
" of Carlisle, and to the two other Knights, Sir Stephen Scrope
and Ferriby, weeping most tenderly, and greatly lamenting,
upon the walls of the castle of Flint ; so that I firmly believe no
" creature in this mortal world, let him be who he would, Jew or
" Saracen, could have beheld these five together, without being
" heartily sorry for them."^
Notwithstanding his adherence to his former sovereign. Sir
Stephen Scrope contrived to establish himself in the confidence of
Henry the Fourth ; for, though accused of being cognizant of the
conspiracy to dethrone that monarch by John Kighlee, Esq., he
succeeded in proving his innocence. The trial took place before
the Earl Marshal in the Court of Chivalry in the Moot Hall of
Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the 2nd August 1400, when Scrope alleged,
that since the proceedings commenced, he received intimation of a
plan which Kighlee had formed to murder him in his manor-house
of Bynbury in Kent in the June preceding ; and he contended
that the accusation was malicious, and arose from a dispute about
some lands. Scrope was acquitted, and declared to be ^^ a good
> Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II. : Archeeologia, vol. xx.
p. 110 et seq. * Life of Richard II. by the Monk of Evesham, p. 155.
' Archaeologia, xx. p. 157.
FAMILV OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
and faithful subject ;" but Kighlce was declared guilty of the Sm
intended murder, and adjudged to suffer the same punishment as
would have been awarded to Scrope if the charge had been sub-
stantiated :' he was however subsequently pardoned.'^
On the 10th December 1400, Sir Stephen Scrope and Sir
Richard Grey of Codnor were made Governors of Roxburgh
Castle;' and by indenture dated 14 December, 2 Hen. IV. 1400,
Lord Grey and himself undertook the custody of that castle with
forty men-at-arms, receiving in time of war, until the new fosse
and fortifications were completed, 4000 marks per annum ; and
after that time, 3000 marks. During a truce with Scotland, they
were to be paid 2000 marks yearly; but in time of peace, what
the King might think proper. It was farther stipulated, that in
the event of an assault of the castle by the Scotch, they were to
raise as many more men as thoy might deerei to be necessary for its
defence ; and if it were besieged, the King agreed to assist them
within a quarter of a year. The expense of victualling the said
castle was to be paid by the keepers.*
In 1401, Sir Stephen Scrope returned to Ireland as Deputy of
Thomas of Lancaster, the King's son ;* and if the following anec-
dote be true, another instance is afforded of the admirable manner
in which a woman sometimes uses her influence. It is said that
his wife having heard the complaints which were made against him
for his conduct whilst in Ireland some years before, refused to
accompany him to that kingdom, '* except he would receive a
" solemn oath on the Bible, that willingly he would wrong no
" Christian creature in that land, that truly and duly he should
" see payment made for all expences ; and hereof, she said, t
" had made a vow to Christ so determinately, that unless it were
" on bis part firmly promised, she could not, without peril of soul,
" go with him. Her husband assented, and accomplished her
" request effectually ; recovered a good opinion for his upright
"dealing; reformed his caterers and purveyors; enriched the
' Foaden, iii. p* iv. p. 1<
1 RouScota Heo. IV. i
' Holinahed's Chronitle;
3. > Ibid. p. 196.
1. T. • Cotton. MS, Veapasianus, F. vii, f. 81.
of Ireland, p. 66.
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48 HISTORY OF THE
Sir Stephen " Country ; maintained a plentiful house. Remission of great
ScROPE
" offences ; remedies for persons endangered to the Prince ; par-
^^ dons of lands and lives he granted so charitably, and so discreetly,
that his name was never recited among them without many
blessings and prayers ; and so cheerfully they were ready to serve
him against the Irish upon all necessary occasions.*" ^
The high opinion entertained of Sir Stephen Scrope by the
young Lieutenant, Thomas of Lancaster, is shewn by the fol-
lowing extract from a letter, addressed by that prince to his
father King Henry the Fourth, dated at Drogheda, 18th Feb-
ruary 14!01. After stating that Scrope had obtained his permis-
sion to go to England, alleging that he could not serve any longer
without payment of his wages, he added, that he intended to
obtain an audience of his Majesty, on matters connected with his
late custody of Roxburgh Castle. " I pray you, therefore, my
^^ sovereign Lord and father, to expedite the business of the said
*^ Sir Stephen as speedily as you can, that he may return to me,
^^ for I cannot, if it please you, spare him long. He is of such
great service to me, by reason of the great knowledge that he
hath of the governance of the wars, and of the condition of
the people here, on which subject be pleased to give full faith
^^ and credence to all he may state to you on my part, as well
*^ touching the said matters, as other things materially relating to
" the condition of this country.''^
The subjoined letter from Sir Stephen Scrope appears to have
been written about this time. It is dated at Chester, on the 27th
August, but the year is not mentioned, and it has been hitherto
attributed to Stephen Lord Scrope of Masham. Many circum-
stances, however, tend to prove that it was from Sir Stephen; more
especially his statements, that he had little property, that he was
then in the King's service with his Majesty''s son, and his request
of a grant of the Isle of Man, which had been forfeited by his
brother the Earl of Wiltshire.
* Holinshed*s Chronicles of Ireland, p. 67.
* Original. Cottonian MS. Titus B. xi. fo. 22. Printed at length in the
Archaeologia, vol. xx. p. 249.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
" Tres excellent, tres redoute, et nion essovereyn Seigneur ; *'
" je me recommand a vostre haute et reall Majeste a tant come
" aucun lege homme puis a son Seigneur soveryn ; desyranl ad
" tout mon coer de oyer et savoyr bonez novellca de vos et de
" vostre haute Majeste, le quell je pry a ly tout puissant que tous
" jours maintener et encrez com vostre coer mesmes saver a multz
" soheyder ou deviser; et vos doynt toujours le victoyr de lous
" voz enemyz : Et, tres redoule el mon essovereyn Seigneur, jc
" vous supply parDieux, et en overe de charyte, que vos plesse,
" que je puis eatre en vostre memoyr: Et pour tant que je suy
" en vostre servysse ovesk mon tres redoute Seigneur vostre Fitz,
" que je ne soy pas en obly. Et parce je ay envoye devant vostre
" haute prcsenz Hugh Cordoys, porteiir de ceste, pour pursuer
" devenl vostre haute presenz touchant mon bille que je ay baylle
" a vostre hautesse a mon deseyn de partir de vostre haute pre-
" senz, touchant le ylle de Man, en cas que vous plest que ill
" poursue pour le dit matre : Et altrement je le met en vostre
" haute et graciouse volunte. Par en bon foy de Dicux, mon
" essovereyn Seigneur, je ne ay null espoyr, ne null eyde de null
" creature fors que de Dieux et de vostre gracyouse et haute
" Majeste: Et parce par DJeux, que vos plesse penser de mon
" pover estat, le quel je ne puis mayntener ne sustener en null
" manier sanz vostre gracyouse ayde. Et serteyn el en bon foy
" vos me troverez touz jours humble et loyale lege, et prest a
" touz gervyces que vos me commandrez ad testous mon poayer
" en corps et bienz sanz null fayntissc. Tres excellent, tres re-
" doute, et mon essuereyn seigneur, je pry aly tout-puissant, que
" touz jours maynten et encrez vost haute et realle Majeste en ioy,
" honer, et prosperite, com vost graciouse coeur mesmez saver a
" multz soheyder. Escrit a Chest', le xxvii. jour de Auste, de ma
" propre rude mayn, en deffaute de un alt' clerk. Et par ce ie sup-
" ply a vost hautesse, que vos please me tener pou' excuse de ceat
" lettre. " Vosf humble Lege,
' A tres excellent, tres redoute, et mon
essovereyn seigneur, le Hoy."'
' I ioward's Collection of Leilers, 410.
' S. SCROPP.
50 HISTORY OF THE
Sir Stephen gi^ Stephen Scfope returned to Ireland, and accompanied the
Earls of Desmond and Ormond in their successful invasion of the
territory of Mac Murrogh in 1407, but he did not long survive
that affair. He died at Tristel Dermot on the 10th February
1408, and about two years before his death he made his Will,
which was dated on the 6th January 1405-6, and of which the
following is a copy :
*^ In Dei noie Amen. Ego Stepfius Lescrop dominus de Bente-
ley compos mentis ac in bona memoria et sanitate corporis exist^
necnon timens mortis perictum condo testamentum meum in hunc
modum. In primis lego animam meam deo beate Marie et omni-
bus Sanctis ejus et corpus meum ad sepeliend in ecctia abat^ sancte
Agathe juxta Richmund juxta tumbam dni Ricardi patris mei
ittm. Itm lego Johanni de Esby Abbati dict^ Conventus unam pel-
vem rotundam argenteam cum uno lavacr argent' pro eadem et
quinq^ marc. Itm lego domino Johanni de Homyngton canonico
il^m quinq^ marc. Itm lego cuilibet canonico dicti conventus xx. s.
Itm lego Abbati predco in memoria pro aia mea unam calicem de
auro & XX. marc. Itm lego Milicentie uxi mee duas pelves argen-
teas cum duabus lavacr argenteis duodecem discos argenteos
unum lectum cum lectis meis braudat^ cu toto apparat^ de rul^
worstede unum lectum viridem cum toto apparatu et omnia mea
perrea et unum payn per coopertur uni^ lecf furratum cum me-
nevere. Itm lego Stepfio filio meo precarissimo et fiedi duas pelves
cum duabus lavarr argenteis xij discos argenteos unum siphum
deauratu coopertum duos siphos argenteos coopert^ unii aut et
unu lectu cum toto apparatu braudatu cum paplers nappariam
pro tabulis | & pro tat armig et vat per unam vicem cooptam
cum benediccoe mea beate Marie oim scorum et scorum dei et
unum gladium longum quondam Edwardi Regis Anglie et mi
legatum per prem meum. Itm lego Elizabet^ filie mee pro mari-
tagio s ccc marc argent^ de maneriis meis in coin Kane levandum
prout per feoffamentu de dictis maneriis meis per me confcm con-
cess plenius appet cum benediccoe mea beate Marie oim scorum et
scorum dei. Itm lego Johanni Tibbay de Wynsley unum vesti-
mentum de sindone album et rub ij ere wets j paxbrede et unum
argenteum. Itm lego Wiltmo Ferers unu equu meliorem meum
X marc argent et c solid annuatim percipiend ad Pmiu vite sue
prout per carta meam sibi inde confcam plenius potent apper.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
51
Ifm Hugoni Curteys x raaro. Itin lego dno Pilippo capellano '^
meo X, ti. Itm lego Niclio Bouclond qiiinq, marP. Itin lego
Wiltmo Pouotfrait unum siphum deauratum el unum cornii cum
pedibus argenf \j discos argeoteos. vj sallaf argent' & x mare
argent" annuatim percipiend ad I'miu vitc sue prout per carta
meani S confcam plcnius poBt apper. Itm lego Thome Twhatys
c solid. Johanni Gotenham xl. s, Morys Pounteyn v marc. Augneti
dCt Chambn quatuor marc. Wittmo de Chamber quatuor marc.
Pevel de Chamber v marc. Johanni Bedford xl. 5. Johanni Bedford
Jofii Barbo'xl.s, Motynxl.s. Johanni Benyuton iiij marc. Johanni
Murura xl. s. Wittmo Mongton v marc. Pet" Ferro' iiij marc. Pet"
de Oascoign xl. b. Thme James xl. s. Wittmo Horsman v marc.
Withno Newton quinq, marc. Johanni de BaPy xl. s. NicRo Lyon
xl. s. Wittmo Trusluf ij marc. Wittmo Palfreman xx. s. Itm
lego ordini frm minoif in Richinia x marc. Itm lego cuilibet fri
ejusdem Conventua ad meu obitum existent' vj. s. viij. S. Ilm lego
decern pauperib3 ad meu obitu orantihus viij. iiijd. cuilib3 eoruoi
X denarios. Itm lego vij aliis pauperibus iBni existent' iiij.s. j. 3.
cuilibet eoif septem 6. Itm lego v. aliis pauperibus ij. s. j.d. cui-
libet eon V denarios. Ilm lego x 5. ad distribuend inP omnes alios
pauperes ad diet' men existent' obitu. Itm tego et vote qd qutnq,
misse celebrenf" pro aia mea cotidie per v dies et vj misse per vij
dies cotidie pro se et decem misse per x dies cotidie pro se cu obtacoe
ad qualibet missam per decern dies predcos. Itm lego cuilibet pau-
peri oranti pro aia mea ad qualibet missam j denariii. Itm lego
fribus prcdicat' Cantuarieii x marc. Ilm lego Fratribus Augustifi
de London quinque marc. Itm tego Fratribus Camielit' de North-
allerton qninq, marc. Ilm tego totum residuum bonu^ meoij
mobilium et immobiliuni executoribus meis ad disponend pro
anima mea et ad solveodu mea debita scdm discretionem suam
prout coram deo volufint fnilere. Itm lego et promitto veto qd
omnia mea dfbita forent soluta de omnibus bonis et catailis meis
primu et principal!? si mea debita non poVunt plenar solvenda de
residuo Iwnoit meoi{ nulla legata predicta. Et si contingat cjd
residuum bonoij meorii non fuerit sufficiens ad mea debita solvenda
tunc lego et concede qd nianerium meu de Byngbury in Cofii Kane
vendetur p meos feoffaios tlicti nianerii ad sotvendu mea debita
predca- Ita quo legal' predict' mea po?unt plenar et fideliP per-
ticienda el imptenda secundu voluntatem et legacom meant pre-
sentem. Itm legu Abbati de Mehfaunt xx. li. Itm lego magro de
52
HISTORY OF THE
Sir Stephen
SCROPE.
Rosse qui fuit arestatus ap Watreforth xx. ti. Itm lego et con-
stituo meos executores timoi testamenti mei Milicentia Lescrop
uxorem mea Johem de Tybbay personam ecctie de Wynsley Wiltm
Ferre'set Wiltm Pontfreyt. In cujus rei testimoniu presentihuic
testamento meo sigillum meu apposui. Dat^ vj^ die p^mi mens
Januar anno dni miltmo cccc"** v***-
Probatum fuit presens testamentum coram dno in manerio suo
de Lamhet' secundo die mensis Decembris anno dni miltmo cccc"°
nono Scc.**'^
Sir Stephen Scrope married his father^s ward, Milicent, the
second daughter and coheiress of Robert Lord Tiptoft, with
whom he acquired the manors of Bentley in Yorkshire and Castle-
comb in Wiltshire : she was bom in 1368,^ and was married in or
before the year 1385.* Lady Scrope married secondly, on the 13th
January 1409, the renowned Sir John Fastolf, K.G. who was then
an Esquire serving in Ireland. He settled 100/. a year upon her
for " her chamber,'^ which she continued to receive so late as the 24th
Hen. VI. 1445-6. Fastolf survived her, and ordered his body to be
buried under a marble tomb near the spot where she was interred
in the conventual church of St. Bennet in the Holmes in Norfolk.*
Sir Stephen Scrope left issue a daughter, Elizabeth, who was
unmarried at the time of her father's decease, and a son, Stephen,
who settled on his mother's estate of Castlecomb in Wiltshire, and
I ^- was the ancestor of the Scropes of Castlecomb,
5io3\ now represented by William Scrope of Castle-
comb in the county of Wilts, and of Cockering-
ton in the county of Lincoln, Esq.
The Arms borne by Sir Stephen Scrope of
Bentley were, Azure, a bend Or, differenced by
a mullet Ermine, in the upper part of the bend.^
' £x Reg. Arundell in Bibl. Lambeth asservat. vol. ii. fo. 40^ The copy in the
toxt has been carefully collated with that Register, but it is obvious that there are
many clerical errors. The same remark applies to the will of Roger Lord Scrope
in pages 54, 55. ' Esch. 46 £dw. IIL u* 44. ' Rot Claus. 9 Ric. II. m. 29.
< Article " Fastolfe" in Kippis* Biographia Britannica.
^ Seal of Sir Stephen Scrope in 9 Ric. II. described in Thoroton's Nottingham-
shire, p. 104, and a Roll of Arms now in the possession of the lUv. John Newling,
Canon of Lichfield.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 53
i. Richard Scrope, a younger son of Richard First Lord ^"^'
Scrope <)f Bolton. All which is known of liim is that by a deed
dated at Laiigley on the vigil of the feast of All Saints, 40 Edw.
111., 31 October 1366, hia father granted him the manor of Lang-
ley in the Bishoprick of Durham, to hold to him for life, together
with ten shillings annual rent issuing out of the manor of Eshe in
the said Bishoprick, he rendering to his father forty marks yearly.
It was also provided, that if at any time the said rent should be
in arrear for the term of one month, or if the said Richard should
be promoted to any ecclesiastical benefite of the value of 40/. per
annum, or if he should marry a woman who had inherited lands or
tenements of that annual value, then, in that case, the said manor,
&c. was to revert to the grantor or his heirs. No notice is taken
of him in the Will of his father or brothers, and as the manor of
Ijangley reverted to his brother, it is most probable that he died
young and unmarried.
ROGER, SECOND LORD SCROPE of Bolton, the R™
Loni
second son of Richard first Lord Scrope, was, according to the
inquisition taken on his father's decease in 1403, then aged thirty
years and upwards,' but it is certain that he must have been
considerably above forty.
It is remarkable that though so much is said of two of his
brothers, scarcely any thing is known of Roger Lord Scrope : his
name is not to be found in many contemporary records, nor is he
once mentioned by the Deponents. He was summoned to Parlia-
ment on the 20th of October and 23rd November 5th Hen. IV.
1403, but it does not appear from the Rolls that he ever sat under
either uf the writs. Before the 4th Kic. II. 1380-1, Lord Scrope
married Margaret the eldest daughter and coheiress of Robert
Lord Tiptoft, one of his father's wards ; and on the 23rd of Sep-
tember 1403 he made his Will, being then at Bolton Castle, which
is remarkable from his bequeathing many of the same articles,
and with the same conditions aa those up<m which he became
possessed of them under his father's will.
I £scl].4IleD. IV. n° 3.
64 HISTORY OF THE
Roger, sicond « In dei nomine Amen. Ego Rogerus le Scrop diis de Bolton
Lord ScROPE. . ... ,. • o - i «^ j • • «n-
bone memone xxuj die mensis Septembr anno dommi miilio
OGCC"^^ tercio apud Bolton condo testm meu in hunc modum. In
primis do & lego animam meam deo et l^te Marie & omibus
Sanctis & corpus meu deo placente ad sepeliend in mon AbBie
sancte Agath jux" Richmd. Item volo qd omia debita mea (^aci?
pbata primo & principalis psolvant' & qd omib3 & singlis quales-
cumq^ fiSint qui vel que possint f^aciS probare qd quicq^ ab eis p
extorsionem seu aliquo alio modo incongruo fieo vel habui de bonis
meis satisfiat plenarie & indilate. Item lego ^dce AbBie quadra-
ginta libras p & norale mortuarii mei. Itm lego cuitt canonico
ejusd Abfeie ad obitu meu existenti vj.s. viij.d. Item lego Rico
filio meo pcarissimo & heredi unu par de PaSnosSs de corayle cu
monili aureo que quondam fuernt dni pris mei cum una cruce de
auro qua usus fui & portavi cum bndictione dei gloriosissime vir-
ginis Marie oim sanctoi^ & mea. Itm lego pdco Rico p capella de
Bolton in Castro melius vestimentum meu integru cum meliori calice
& turriBlo meliori cu duab3 ineliorib3 cruettis campana & pax-
brede. Item lego eidem Rico unu portiforiu & unum missale de
usu Eboif que Munt dni pris & hoc sub conditione qd semp
remaneant rectis heredibus meis de corpe meo masculis. Itm
eidem p principali camera lectum meum de velvet broudat' cum
quatuor cos?s de ope de Arrays 8c quatuor tapettis ejusdem coloris
lecti pdci cu linthrainib3 vidtt unu par de Reynes cu matresce
blankett' & canvas p una vice pdict' lecto ptinen. Itm pelvem
meu rotundu meliorem cum aquario de argento p pdca cania.
Item p aula il^m aulam mea viridem cu griffons textam cu man-
tellis armoif meoif duo carcatoria xij discos 8c xij salsaria argent^
unu salariu deauratu cooptum unu p pelv de argento coopt^ cu
armis meis 8c dni Comitis Westmorland in fundo.^ Item duas
ollas argenteas p butter meliores. Itm unum ciphum de argento
cooptum vocat' le Constable cop. Itm unu maser vocat' Spang
quos quidem ciphu & murram lego sub condic ^dict'. Itm una
coupam cu uno aquario deaurato & enameles quam coupam cu
aquario pdict^ quondam fuerunt dni Comitf ArundeD: duos discos
p elemosina de argento cu armis meis & armis Com SufT quos dns
pa? meus fiuit ex legatione Coin ^dictoi^ sub tti conditione qd
semp remaneant rectis tiredibus meis in memoriale p^ctoif Comi-
* This cup is described in the Will of Richard Lord Scrope as having the arms
of Neville thereon. Ralph Neville was made Earl of Westmoreland in 1397.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
55
turn. Itm meliorem meu Spiceplate arg. Itm ^ garderopa melio- Rooin, "■•
rem gladium meum cum ijmib5 armatur meis artetriis fit tcntes
tam ji corpe meo q'm |i municione Castri de Bolton. Itm in oiiii-
bus ilontibus oflSc castri pdict' omia vasn enea ferrea pluinbea
lignea k alia ulensilia & oiiiia legata pdca sibi lego sub tti condi-
clone q^ nulla principalia pelat k lAff non. salva bridiccone di &
mea. Itm p'dco Rico duo carcatoria argent' k nappiam de ope ^
principal! tabula in aula de Bolton ad seniel coopiend en so'napp
et towale de [Wicto ope & ji sex tabulis in aula pdicta nappariam
lineam competentem ad semel coopiend. Itm volo & p'n'' lego qd
si debita mea ^aci^ |]bata vel aliqua male quesita ^lut ad principium
istius testament! dcm est de bonis meis ull' legal' mea p^omiata
plene psolvi no pnt qd de pdictis legatis pportionalit' retrahent'
pro solutions debitoi} meoif. Ilm volo & lego qd residuum offiiu
bonoi( meoi^ distribuat' & disponat' p executores testamenti mci
& supvisores ejusdm secundum qd melius eis viderit p salute anime
inee disponend. Itm volo qd ad obitu meu nulla fiat congregatio
neq, solempnitas sed qd sint quinq, tapers cere circa corpus meu &
qd serviciii fiat p Abbtem & Con*""' sancte Agath & p aliquos alios
Abtetes sm qd viderit exec meia & qd xx" ti distribuant' inf paup-
culos k egenos nouiie & toco dDe solempnitatf p executores meos
^cos. Kt ad oiiiia ista complenda & 6deliP pficienda ordino &
eonstituo executores meos p magna gratitudinis affectione Marga-
retani le Scrop ux?em meam ptarissimam Nicfimde Strylley milite
Jotinem de Tibbay Ctieum Thomam Kesteven & Jofiem Grene-
lane. Supvisores Po ejusdem facio k eonstituo ex causa pdict
Henricii Fitz Hugh diim de Ravenswayth 8c Ricm de Norton.
In cujus rei lestiom huic ^i'senti tcsto meo sigillu meu apposui.
Dat die loco & anno suprodict.
CoDiciLLUs. — Memorandq*' si Ricus fiUus & heres Rici' [Hen-
rici] de Grey dni nup de Wilton St Shirlond non consenciat ad
mrio'" int' ipm k Matild filiam meam sollempnizatam quaiido idm
Ricus ad etatem quatuordeccm annoi{ pven?it tune ego Ro^us
Lescrop lego maritagium ejusdem Rici una cum custodia oim
fVai^ suaif executorib3 meis in testament» meo nominat' ad dispo-
' Sic in the copy iu the Register at Larabelb, but it is properly written Henrici
in the copy in the Arch i episcopal llegistry at York- Henry Lord Grey of Wilton
died in the I9th Ric. II. leaving Richard hjs son three yeais of age, who, on his
mother's decease in the 3rd Hen. IV., was found to be ten years old. It is not
certain whether ihis marriage was consummated.
66 HISTORY OF THE
Roger, second nend ad promotionem & maritagiura dee Matild et si concordat ad
dcm maritagiu idem Ricus cu ad dcam etatera pven?it tuc volo q*^
dicti execu tores mei disponant omia pficua dca^ ?ra2f ult* reprisas
annuales p salute anime sue p discrecoem eoi^dem. In cujus rei
testimo*"' huic ^senti cedule diet' testo raeo annex sigillu meu
apposui. Dat' in Crastino sancti And? Apli anno r. r. Henrici
quarti post conquestu quinto.
Tenore p^senciu nos Thomas &c. notum facimus q** xvij"" die
mensis Januarii anno dni mitt*** cccc™**fcio in maiSio nro de Lamhith
probatu fuit coram nobis testm dni Ro^ lescrop dni de Bolton
una cu codicitt p^ntib5 annex Scc.'^^
Roger Lord Scrope survived his father only a few months, and
died on the 3rd December 1403.- His wife Margaret Tiptoft
was born in 1366,* and in the 7th Hen. IV. 1405-6 she married
her second husband John Nixandser or Niandser. From a petition
which she presented to Parliament in 1421 respecting her right to
some manors, it appears that John de Tybbey, Clerk, one of her
husband Lord Scrope's feoffees and executors, caused Nixandser
to be indicted for ravishing Lady Scrope, of which offence he was
however acquitted ; but on the 22nd July 1414 he was obliged to
quit the country in consequence of having committed felony, and
died about the year 1420.* The crime alluded to was the murder
of the above mentioned John de Tybbey, and the circumstance
is thus described in a contemporary chronicle under the year 1414.
" On Seynt Marie Maudelyn day, John Neanser squyer, and his
men, sclowen Maistre John Tybbay clerk, as he passed through
Lad lane, for the whiche deth the same John Nyauncer, and iiij
of his men fledden into Seynt Annes chirche withinne Aldrich-
" gate ; and withinne the same chirche they were mured up, and
men of diverses wardes watched them nyght and day. And the
forsaid John Nyauncer and his men forsworen the Kynges lond,
and passyd through the citee of London toward Caleys in there
a
* Ex Reg. Arundell. in Bibl. Lambeth asservat. vol. i. fo. 204*.
* Inq. p. m. 5 lien. IV. No. 25. " Juratores dicunt Uogerus le Scrope Ch*r
obiit die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Andree Apostoli ultimo pretcrito [In-
quis. dated 1st July, 5 Hen. IV. 1404.] £t quod Ricardus Lescrope est filius &
hsres ejusdem Rogeri propinquior & fuit statis decern annorum in festo Sancte
Petronille Virginis ultimo preterito." ' Esch. 46 Edw. III. n*44.
* Rot. Pari. iv. 164.— See the Proofs.
FAMILY OF SCBOPE OF BOLTO\.
" schertes and breches, and icli of them a crosse in there hand."' f
It thus appears that Tjbbey fell a victim to hia zeal for the
Scrope family, as this attack upon him doubtless sprung from
revenge for having prosecuted Niandser.
Lady Scrope made her Will on Friday the 13th of April
1431 m which she styled herself " Lady Margaret late wife of Sir
Roger le Scrope, Knight and daughter of Sir Robert Tiptoft.'
She ordered her funeral to be conducted at the discretion of her
son Thomas Scropi. whom she appointed her executor; and de-
sired that her body might be buried in the church of the Holy
Tnnity of the pnory of Chnst Church, London. Her Will was
proved on the 14th of May 1431.
Roger Lord Scrope bore the arms of his
f t iniily, without any difference. By Margaret
Tiptoft he had three children,
1 RICHARD, THIRD LORD SCROPE
OP Bolton who was born 31 May 1393, and
was ten years old at his father's death.
. Thomas Scrope. All which is known of him is that he was
the executor of his mother's will in May 1431 ; and that
according to the inquisition 12th April 1459, on the death
of Henry fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton,' " Thomas Scrope
Esquire, his uncle," was one of his Lordship's feoffees, in
the 27th Hen. VI. 1448-
3, Maud, who was very young in 1404, and was then con-
tracted to marry her father's ward Richard, son and heir
of Henry late Lord Grey of Witton and Shirlond.
From this period, all which is necessary to be said of the
Family of SCROPE OF BOLTON will be found in the follow-
ing Pedigree, whereby it will appear that the Barony is now vested
in Charles Jones, Esq.
' CbroQicle of Loudon, p. 08, 99.
' Id July, 10 Hen. IV. 1409, the keeper of Cowyk Park, alias ifae Park of
Kilpyn, was ordered to deliver " a ar'e tres cheie & bien amee Margarie Dame Le-
scrop," twenty oaks out of Ihe said park, and a similar warrant was issued on the
same day to llie paiker of Phippyn Park to deliver six oaks to ber. (Records
of ihe Duchy of Lancaster,) ' See the Proofs and lUuslration».
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OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
CHARTER BY WHICH ALICE AND MAUD, DAUGHTERS OF PHILIP LE SCROPE,
CONVEYED LANDS IN PLOTMANBY TO THEIR UNCLE, SIMON LE SCROPE,
6 JOHN, 1205.'
[Referbed to in page 6.]
Omnibus hominibus presentibus et futuris Matildis et Alicia filie
Philippi Scrop salutem. Scitis nos dedisse et concessisse et presenti
carta nostra confirmasse Simo'i Scrop et heredibus suis totam terram que
fuit Philippi Scrop patris nostri io feodo et in hereditate sicut finalis
Concordia facta fuit in curia domini Regis per cyrographum apud Ebor.
die Martis primo ante festum sancti Gregorii anno regni Regis Johannis
sexto coram ipso domino Rege, G. fil. Pet. com. Essex, Simoni de Pa-
teshill, Magistro Rad. de Stokes, Jacobo de Potema, Justiciariis, et aliis
fidelibus domini Regis tunc ibidem presentibus, inter nos et predictum
Simonem Scrop, scilicet in Flotemanbi unam carucatam terre cum
omnibus pertinenciis et duos sol. redditus de Walt* Scankes et de here-
dibus suis per annum et molendinum ad ventum, et in Folketon duas
bovatas terre in dominico cum pertinenciis et servicium unius bovate
terre et dimid. quas Henricus fil. Will'i tenuit et servicium dimidie
bovate terre quam Walt* tenuit, et in Hundemanbi unam . bovatam terre
cum pertinenciis, in Neubigging dimidiam carucatam terre cum perti-
nenciis, & in Boitona tre sol. redditus et unam libram piperis per annum
de triginta et tribus acris terre quas Willis Scrop tenuit, et in Hesel
unum toftum et in Willardeby duas bovatas terre cum pertinenciis unde
recognitio de morte antecessoris summonita fuit inter nos in predicta
curia, scilicet quod idem Simon recognovit totam terram predictam cum
pertinenciis esse jus nostrum. Et pro hac recognitione et fine et Con-
cordia concessimus eidem Simoni totam illam predictam terram cum
pertinenciis tenendam sibi et heredibus suis de corpore ejus genitis de
nobis et heredibus nostris imperpetuum faciendo forinsecum servicium
quod ad illam terram pertinet pro omni servicio. Et si ita contigerit
quod idem Simon obierit sine herede de corpore suo genito tota predicta
terra cum pertinenciis redibit ad nos et ad heredes nostros post obitum
' From the original among the muniments of Bolton Hall.
VOL. II. K
66 HISTORY OF THE
ipsius SimoDis quieta de heredibus ipsius Simon is imperpetuum. £t pro
hac concessione et confirinacione predictus Simon dedit nobis viginti
marcas argenti et Alicie matri nostre quinque marcas et x solidos. £t
sciendum quod nos attornavimus ipsum Simonem ad faciendum pro nobis
capitalibus dominis servicium quod ad illam terram pertinet. Hiis tes-
tibus, Rad. de Norma'ville tunc vie. £bor\ Rad. de Muleton, Walt'o de
Bovi*gton, Rad. de Novavilla, Rob. de Boithorp, Hug. de Magnebi.
One Seal contains a Griffin passant winged, inscribed, sioill' si'okis
scROp. — ^The other seal is defaced.
CHARTER BY WHICH SIMON LE SCROPE OF FLOTMANBY, AND INGOLIANA HIS
WIFE, GRANTED LANDS IN WENSLAY TO THEIR SON HENRY LE SCROPE.*
[Referred to in page 7.]
Omnibus has literas visuris vel audituris Simon Scrop de Flotemanbi '
et Ingoliana uxor ejus salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra
nos dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse et totum
jus nostrum quietum clamasse Henrico filio nostro et heredi de tota terra
nostra in Wandesle videlicet in villa et in territorio cum omnibus perti-
nenciis predicte terre spectantibus^ illam videlicet quam tenuimus de
Osberto filio Nigelli domino de villa de Wandesle/ et nos ipsos a predicta
terra omnino dimisisse et dictum Henricum filium nostrum et heredem
interposuisse ut ipse et heredes sui eam teneant et habeant libere quiete
et pacifice pro omni seculari servicio et domanda ut unquam liberius
tenuimus sicut in carta nostra continetur, et in hujus rei testimonium
sigilla nostra buic scripto apposuimus. Hiis testibus, Eustach. de Ludha'
tunc vicecomite Ebor*, Walt'o de Folketon, Henrico filio ejus, WiU'o de
Redb'n, Walt'o de Sourebi, Will'o de Thameton, Ada de Drifeld, Will'o
de Drifeld, Rad. filio ejus, Rob'to de Kelvi*gholm, Henrico filio WiU'i,
Henrico Gurlewald de Folketon, Rad. Nobili, et Henr. de Fordon de
Flixton, et multis aliis.
One of the Seals contains a Griffin passant without wings, and is
inscribed — s .... on i p. — ^The other seal is obliterated.
NOTICE OF THE LANDS OF WILUAM DE SCRUB, IN LINCOLNSHIRE, BEING
SEISED ABOUT THE 5'** JOHN, 1205, FOR FORGING THE KING^S SEAL.
Rex, &c. Vic' Line'. Scias quod dedimus Ade de Essex' clerico nostro
pro servicio suo omnes terras et tenementa et jura que fuerunt Wil-
lelmi de Scrubz, cujus terre et tenementa sunt excaeta nostra per felo-
niam quam fecit de falsificacione sigilli nostri, et ideo tibi precipimus
' From tlie original among the muniments at Bolton Hall.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 67
quod eidem Ade vel certo nuncio suo litteras istas tibi deferenti plena-
riam saisinam inde in omnibus sicut ex dono nostro sine dilacione habere
facias et precipias omnibus tenentibus de terris et feodis illis quod eidem
Ade tanquam domino suo de cetero sint intendentes et respondentes.
Teste me ipso apud Lutegar' xxxviij die Nov. Rot. Glaus. 6 John, m. 1 1.
CHIROGRAPH BETWEEN SIR HENRY SCROPE, KNIGHT, AND THE ABBOT OP
ST. AGATHA, 1 JANUARY, 7 EDW. lU. 1333-4.
Hoc cyro^aphum inter dominum Henricum le Scrop militem advo-
catum Abbathie sancte A^the cum pertinenciis ex una parte et domi-
num Johannem de Percebrigg Abbatem predicte Abbathie et ejusdem
loci conventum ex altera testatur quod cum predictus Abbas etconventus
tenent de predicto domino Henrico diversa tenementa infra comitatum
Ebor' et libertatem Richmondie per multa et diversa servicia, predicti
Abbas et conventus concedunt pro se et successoribus suis quod de
cetero tenebunt imperpetuum predicta tenementa de predicto domino Hen-
rico et heredibus suis per tale servicium ex incremento preter supradicta
servicia que hactenus fieri solebant de predictis tenementis videlicet quod
predicti Abbas et conventus et eorum successores invenient unum canoni-
cum idoneum capellanum divina celebrantem sumptibus ipsius Abbatis et
conventus et eorum successorum omnibus et singulis diebus in ecclesia
sancte Trinitatis de Wendeslagh ad altare beate Marie in eadem villa pro
animabus Wiiri le Scrop et Co'stancie uxoris ejusdem Will'i patris et
matris predicti domini Henrici et antecessorum suorum et pro animabus
heredum dicti domini Henrici et Margarete uxoris ejus et heredum de
corporibus eorum exeuntium. £t pro animabus domini Galfr'i le Scrop
et Ivette uxoris ejus et animabus heredum de corporibus eorum exeun-
tium. £t pro animabus heredum dicti domini Henrici. £t pro anima
domini Henrici de Lasci quondam comitis Lincoln. £t pro animabus
omnium fidelium defunctbrum. Ad que servicia et cantariam predictam
ut predictum est facienda predicti Abbas et conventus se obligant pro se
et successoribus suis imperpetuum. £t si predicti Abbas et conventus
vel eorum successores de predicta cantaria in aliquo tempore defecerint
bene liceat predicto domino Henrico et Margarete uxori ejus et heredibus
de corporibus eorum exeuntibus et heredibus dicti domini Henrici qui
pro tempore fuerint distringere in omnibus terris et tenementis cum perti-
nenciis quas dicti Abbas et conventus de dicto domino Henrico tenent infra
comitatum Ebor' et libertatem Richmondie et distrecciones retinere quo-
usque predicti Abbas et conventus qui pro tempore fuerint de predicta
1 From the original among the muniments at Bolton Hall.
K 2
68 HISTORY OF THE
cantaria et arreragiis satisfecerint. £t si forte erenerit qaod absit quod
aliqui Abbates vel conventus qui pro tempore emnt aliquam acqoietan-
tiam vel acquietancias impetraverint ad predictam cantariam extiiiguend%
predict! Abbas et conventus concedunt pro seet successoribus suis quod ilia
acquietantia vel acquietantie vacua et vacue sint et pro nullis habeantur.
Et pro hac concessione dictus dominus Henricus dedit predictis Abbati
et conventui ducentas libras sterlingorum in magna necessitate sua« In
cujus rei testimonium parti hujus indenture penes dictum dominum
Henricum remanenti dicti Abbas et conventus sigillum suum commune
apposuerunt, et parti hujus indenture penes predictos Abbatem et conven-
tum remanenti predictus dominus Henricus sigillum suum apposuit. Dat.
apud sanctam Agatham die Sabati primo die Januarii anno Domini M**ccc
tricesimo tertio et anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii a conquestu septimo.
The Seal is inscribed — sigillum £cclesi£ s'c£ agathje, and pre-
sents on the obverse, an Abbot under a canopy, holding a crosier in his
right hand with the legend s. abbatis s'cje agatha.
INQUISITION AFTER THE DEATH OP SIR HENRY SCROPB, 10 EDW. III. 1336.
Ju R atores dicunt quod Henricus le Scrop obiit 7" die Septembris &c.
Dicunt etiam quod dictus Henricus tenuit maneria de Westboulton East
Boulton Parva Boulton &c. in comitatu Ebor' qui quidem Henricus recog-
novit predicta maneria esse jus Ricardi de Langeford cappellani ut ilia
que idem Ricardus habet de dono predicti Henrici. Et pro hac recog-
nitione fine et concordia idem Ricardus concessit predicto Henrico pre-
dicta maneria. Et ilia ei reddidit in eadem curia habenda & tenenda
eidem Henrico de capitalibus dominis feodi illius tota vita ipsius Henrici.
Et post decessum ipsius Henrici predicta maneria integre remanebunt
Willielmo filio ejusdem Henrici & hseredibus masculis de corpore suo
Sec, tunc post decessum ipsius T^illielmi predicta maneria integre re-
manebunt Stephano fratri ejusdem Willielmi & heeredibus masculis &c.
Et si contingat quod idem Stephanus obierit sine heerede masculo de
corpore suo &c. tunc post decessum ipsius Stephani predicta maneria
integre remanebunt Ricardo fratri ejus Stephani & heeredibus masculis
de corpore suo &c. Et si contingat quod idem Ricardus obierit sine
httrede masculo de corpore suo &c. tunc post decessum ipsius Ricardi
predicta maneria integre remanebunt rectis hseredibus predicti Henrici &c.
Dicunt etiam quod dictum manerium de Parva Bolton tenetur de
domino Galfrido le Scrope per servicium militare. Dicunt etiam quod
Willitslmui le Scrope est Alius & heeres ejusdem Henrici propinquior &
ekt uitttti» lexdecim annorum.
FAMILV Oy SCROPE OF BOLTON. 69
BXTHACT PROM THB INQUISITtONS AFTER THB DEATH OP SIR WILLIAM
SCROPE, KNT. 18 EDW. [11- 1344.
Inq. coram Jolianne Windsor cscaetore Warr' et Leic', 5 Jan. 18
Ed.lII.bundellalD Ed. HI. m. 61, " JuratoMB dicunt ((uod Wmjelmua
filius Henrici le Scrope lenuit apud Medbume in Com. Lecesir, de Bege
in capile per servitium ij'' per annum solvend' in scaccar' Regis per ma-
nus Vic. Leic, et idem Willielmus obiit 17 Novembria ultimo preierito,
et quod RicarduB le Scrope frater predict! Willielmi est herei et etatis
17 annonira."
Inq. coram Thoma de Rolceby escaetore Regis in Com. Eboru' die
Lune prox. ante festum Pasche 19 Ed. III. m. 61. " Juratores dicunt
quod Willielmu$ le Scrope filius Henrici obLit sine herede masculo, et
quod manerium de EdJington couceditur Henrico Scrope ad termiaum
Tite ; remanere Willielmo filio predict! Henrici in feodo tallialo masculo :
remanere Stephano fratri ejusdem Willielmi defuDcto et hecedibus mas-
culis ; remanere Ricardo fratri ejusdem Stephani."
CHARTER OP RICHARD FIBST LORD SCROPE OP BOLTON, GRANTING THE
HANOH OP LANGLEY CO. DUHHAH TO RICHABD HIS SON, 31 OCTOBER
40 EDW. 111. 1366.'
SciANT presentea et futuri quod ego Ricardus Le Scrop miles dedi
coDcessi et hac present! carta indentata confirmavi Ricardo Ulio meo
manerium meum de Langley cum perlinentiis una cum redditu decern
solidorum exeuntium annuatim de maoerio de Esshe cum perlinentiis in
Episcopalu Dunelm. Habendum et teiieodum ad totam vitam ipsius
Ricardi filii mei Reddendo inde annuatlm michi ad totam vitam meam
XL marcas sterlingorura ad festum sancti Martini in yeme et Pentecost
per equales portiones et faciendo capitalibus dominis feodi illius servicia
inde debita et consucta. Et si contingut predictus reddttus xl marcarum
post aliquem terminum per unum mensem a retro existeie in parte vel in
toto vel si Ricardus filius meus piomotus fuerit ad aliquod beneficium
ecclesiastic um de valore xl librarum per annum aut maritatus fuerit ad
aliquam puellam habentem terras et tenementa de valore xl librurum
per annum per descensum liereditarium per me vel heredes meos bene
liceat ex tunc michi et heiedibus meis manerium predictum cum perli-
nentiis una cum redditu predicto decern solidotum annuali cum perli-
nentiis inlrare el retinere imperpetuum. Et ego vero predictus Ricardus
et heredes mei manerium et redditum x solidoruni annualem supradictos
cum suis perlinentiis prefato Ricardo tilio meo ad totam vitam suam in
' From Ihe arigin.il among ilie muDinieuls al Uolioti Hall.
70 HISTORY OF THE
forma prenominata contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus et defendeinus.
In cujus rei testimonium parti hujus carte indentate penes prefatum Ri-
cardum (ilium meum remanenti sigillum meum apposui, alteri yero parti
ejusdem carte erga me resident! prefatus Ricardus filius meus sigillum
suum apposuit. Hiis testibus, Rogero de Fulthorp, Johanne de Byrtley,
Gilberto de Clyfton, Joh'e de Byscopdale de Coverham, Joh'e del Orchard
de Langlegh, et aliis. Dat. apud Langley in vigilia Omnium Sanctorum
anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum quadragesimo.
Sealed with a device.
EXTRACT FROM THE INQUISITION AFTER THE DEATH OP RICHARD, FIRST LORD
SCROPE OF BOLTON, WHO DIED 30 MAY, 4 HEN. lY. 1403.
Inq. apud Lecest' die Mercurii prox. ante festum sancti Michaelis
Archangeli anno 4 Hen. IV. coram Reginaldo de Langham escaetore Regis
in Com. Leic. The Jury found that ** Ricardus le Scrope Chivaler
obiit SO die Maii ultimo preterit, et quod Rogerus le Scrope Chivaler
est filius et heres ejusdem Ricardi et est etatis SO annorum et amplius."
EXTRACT FROM THE INQUISITIONS AFTER THE DEATH OF ROGER, SECOND LORD
SCROPE OF BOLTON, 5 HEN. IV. 1405.
Inq. capta apud Melton Mowbray 1 Julii 5 Hen. IV. coram Petro
Pilly escaetore Leyc'. ** Rogerus le Scrope Chivaler tenuit die quo obiit
conjunctim cum Margareta uxore sua adhuc superstite roaneria de £mer-
thorpe et Wymondham et terras in Barstone tenend' eisdem Rogero et
Margarete et heredibus de corporibus eorum, remanere rectis heredibus
ipsius Margarete, et manerium de Emerthorpe tenetur de Rege ut de
Honore de Leycestr' per servitium militare, et manerium de Wymond-
ham tenetur de Rege ut de Honore predicto per servitium militare, et Ro-
gerus obiit die Lune prox. post festum Sancti Andree ultimo preterite, et
quod Ricardus le Scrope est filius et heres ipsius Rogeri et etatis 10 an-
norum in festo Sancte Petronille Virginis ultimo preterite."
By the Inquisition taken at York, which agrees as to the time of his
death and his heir with the above, it was found that " Ricardus le Scrope
Chivaler tenuit Estbolton et Westbolton in Wenslawdale : manerium de
Estbolton tenetur de domino Castri de Richmont et manerium de West-
bolton tenetur de Rad'o Comite Westmerland*."
EXTRACT FROM THE INQUISITION AFTER THE DEATH OF RICHARD, THIRD
LORD SCROPE OF BOLTON, WHO DIED 8 HEN. V. 1418.
Inq. in Com. Hertf. die Lune prox. ante festum Martini 8 Hen. V.
'* Juratores dicunt quod Richardus Scrope de Boltone obiit 29 Augusti
ultimo preterito et quod Hi
pinquior et heres tEtatis 3 i
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 71
lius ipsiiis Kicardi est filius ejus pro-
PBTITION FROM MARGARET LADY SCROPB, WIDOW OP ROGER, 8EC0>
SCROPE OF BOLTON, TO THE COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT, 9 BEN. ^
a LORD
1421.'
A LEs tres sages Comunes en cest present parlement, Supplie humble-
meut Margarete, qui fuist la femme Roger Scioope, Cliivaler, que corae
Nicholl' Slrellay Chtvalet, Richard de Norton, et Johan TybbayClerc, qui
feurent les fefies le dit Roger le Scroope, assignerent par lour Taitez en-
denteez al dite Suppliant en dower, nome de dowement du dit Roger
Scrope, les Manoirs de Clif et Downam, ove les appurtenauntz ; el
tout?, les terres et tenementz en Walboum et Morek ; le Manoiir de Mi-
deltou ; touz les terres el tenementz en Sniderby et Tliornbtirgh, ove les
appurtenauntz ; quatre marcz de rent a prendre des Manours de Edling-
lon et Burton ; les Manours de Braken, Sladmere, Ediingtoii, et
Warnesworth ; rentes, terres et tenementz en Bralhewell, Wadworth, Al-
worthelay, Loversale, et Bentelay ; et toutz les teoementz en Hull, deinz
le Countee d'Everwyk, en allouance de certeines autres terres et tenementz
qui furenl a dit Roger: desqueux manours, terres et tenementz, la dite
Supliante fuist seise tant qua I'an vij"" le Roy Henry, pelr le Roy
q'ore est, que Deux assoile, qu'ele prist a baron une Johau Nixaiid-
ser : lequele Johan par excitaclon de dit Johan Tibbay fuist endite, de ce
qu'il avoit raveye la dite Supplianle, de quele rapele le dit Johan fuist
arreigne en Banke le Roy, et illoesque acquitt, solonc le ley del tene,
come appiert de record. Lequel Johan Nixandger, le xxij jourde Juyll,
I'an seconde de Roy q'ore est, pur une felonie qu'il ad fait devaunt,
abjura la terre. Apres quele abjuracion, Richard le Scrop, come litz
et heir au dit Suppliant, par cause de I'empeshementdu rape avaunt dit,
entra en les ditz manours, terres, et tenementz assignez en dower ; prote-
naunt, que la dit Suppliaunt ne poet avoir accion duraunl la vie du dit Jo-
ban Nixaundser, lequell Richard Scrope morusl avaunt le dit Johan Nyaiid-
ser, et toutz les ditz maooires, terres, et tenen^entz, assignez al dit Sup-
pliant en dower, furent seisez en la mayn le Roy, par cause que feusl
trove devaunt I'Eschetour de Bokingham, que le dit Richard Scrope
fuist seise del manour de Hameldene, et mesme le manour tenoit
de noatre S' le Roy par service de chivaler, tant que disseisie par le
dit Suppliant, William Acworth, et autres, la ou le dit manour de
Hamelden est tenuz de Count de Sat" et nemy de nostre S' le Roy ;
et le dit William Acworth, Guy Fairfax, et William Diggings, <jui
' Kol, Pari, iv, p. 164.
72 HISTORY OF THE
feurent seisiz du dit maDoir de Hameldene long temps devant que le
dit Richard Scrop dens avoit, tant que disseise par le dit Richard
Scroope. Sur quoi le dit William, Guy, et William Diggings entre-
roDt, et lour estate contindront, tanqe ils furent oustez par vertue
de dit office; apres quele ouster, le dit Johan Nyandser morust.
Que pleise a vous tres honurables Seigneurs, de assenter en cest present
parlement, et prier a I'haut et puissant Prince le Due de Bedford
lieutenant d'Engleterre, et touz les Seigneurs Espirituelx et Tem-
porelx en cest present parlement assemblez, que la dite Suppliaunte
par auctorite d'icest present parlement poet estre prive, et avoir
avantage del dit Record en Baunk le Roy, par lequele le dit Johan
Nyandser fuist acquite vers chescune persone, soient ils prive ou
estraunge al dit Recorde. Et auxint par mesme I'auctorite, q'ele
poet entrer en toutz les dit manours, terrez, et tenementz a luy devaunt
assignez, come desus est dit, et les tener et enjoyer selonc I'effect
et content du dit assignement en dower; ascune chose par le dit
Johan Nyandser, devaunt faitz, ou ascune seiseyn en le mayn nostre
S** le Roy, des manoirs, terres, et tenementz, ou ascunes patentes nostre
S** le Roy des ditz manoures, terres, et tenementz, ou ascune parcelle
de eux faitz, nient obstant; pur Dieuxet en overe de charite.
Hesponsio, — Soit il en la eleccion del Suppliant, de suer au Roy par
voye de grace avoir ceste partie, ou q*ele vorra sue en la Chauncellery
du Roy pur son recoverer avoir, solonc le cours de la comune ley.
EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF RALPH NEVILLE, FIRST EARL OF WESTMORE-
LAND, IN CORROBORATION OF THE STATEMENT THAT HIS DAUGHTER
MARGARET MARRIED RICHARD, THIRD LORD SCROPE OF BOLTON.
<< Item filise mese Lescrop j ciphum deaureatum."
THOMAS SCROPE, SURNAMED BRADLEY,* BISHOP OF DROMORE.
As this eminent person cannot with certainty be affiliated, it is de-
sirable that a few words should be said of him in this place, for his rank
and talents were too conspicuous to justify his being passed over in si-
lence. From the circumstance of his being nearly one hundred years old
at his decease in 1491, and from the arms on the monument which for-
merly existed in Lowestoffe church to his memory, being those of Scrope
1 He was called ^ de Bradley'' from his birth-place, as was then the custom upon
entering into religious orders ; and acquired the nidiments of his education in the
little priory there. Nicbob* Leic. vol. ii. p. 509.
I
FAMILY OF aCBOPF, OF BOLTON.
73
of Bolton quartering Tiptofi, difFerenced by a crescent,' it might be pre-
suiDcd that he was the second son of Roger second Lord Scrope of Bol-
ton by Margdret Tiptoft ; but this conjecture is rendered improbable by
their having a son, Thomas, who was an Esquire so late as the year 1448.'
As no notice is taken of the Bishop of Dromore in any of the records or
wills which have been discovered, it would be useless to hazard conjec-
tures about his parents. Bale states that Thomas Schofe was born at
Bradley in Leicestershire, and was descended from the Lords Scrope of
Yorkshire; and, says Fuller,' " rolled through, many professions," which
he thus describes —
"1. He was a Benedictiae, but found that order too loose for his con-
science.
3. A Carmelite of Norwich, as a stricter profession.
3. An Anchorite, (the dungeon of the prison of Carmelitisme.) where-
in he lived twenty years,
4. Dispensed with by the Pope, he became Bishop of Dromore in
Ireland.
5. Quitting his bishopiick, he returned to hia solitary life; yet so,
that once a week he used to walk on his bare feet and preach
the Decalogue in the villages round about,"
Fuller adds — "He lived to be extremely aged; for about the year
iiiS, cloathed in sackcloth and girt with an iron chain, he used to cry
out in the streets — ' That New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb, was
shortly to come down from Heaven prepared for her spouse: Rev. xxi. :
and that with great joy he saw the same in the spirit.'
" Thomas Waldensis, the great anti-Wicklevite, was much offended
thereat ; protesting it was a scandal and disgrace to the Church. How-
ever, our Scroope long outlived him, and died aged well nigh one hundred
years, ' Non sine sanctitatis opinione,' say both Bale and Pitz ; and it is
a wonder they meet in the same opinion."
Bishop Scrope wrote various theological pieces, the titles of which
are given by Bale. He was made Bishop of Dromore in Ireland in' 1449,
consecrated at Rome in 1450, and by Pope Eugenius IV. sent legate to
' GiUingwaier'a History of Lowestoffe, pages 295, 340.
Nkhola' Leic. ul supra.
■ See the next page. ' Puller's Worlliies, Suffolk, p. 69.
' According to Ware's Catalo^e of the Bishops of Ireland,
succeeded to that See in 1434 and resigned il in 1440; bullhisaco
■with other authorities.
TOL. II. L
. 768.
voL i. 3C1, he
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74 HISTORY OF THE
the isle of Rhodes. Whilst bishop, he was, in 1454, instituted by Ed-
mund de Grey Lord Hastings to the rectory of Sparham in Norfolk. In
1460 he resigned the bishoprick, and came again into Norfolk as vicar-
general to the bishop of that diocese, whose suffragan he continued to
be during twenty years. He was instituted to the vicarage of Trowse in
Norfolk in 1466, became Vicar of Lowestoffe in Suffolk on the 27th
May 1478, and died at that place on the 25th January 1491, where he
was buried. According to Bale these lines were inscribed on his tomb —
'' Venit ad occasum morbo confectus amaro.
Spiritus alta petit, pondere corpus humum.''*
EXTRACT PROM THE INQUISITIONS AFTER THE DEATH OP HENRY FOURTH LORD
SCROPE OF BOLTON, 37 HEN. VI. 1459.
Inq. apud Wobume Chapell in Comitatu Bedd' die Veneris prox.
post festum Omnium Sanctorum anno regni Henrici VI. tricesimo
septimo coram Thoma Suthwicke escaetore. " Henricus Scrope de
Bolton obiit 14 Januarii ultimo preterite. Elizabetha uxor ejus super-
stes habuit manerium de Sondon in Comitatu Bed* in dotem, et Johan-
nes le Scrope miles est filius et heres propinquior Henrici et etatis 22
annorum in festo sancte Marie Magdalene ultimo preterite, et mane-
rium de Sondon tenetur de Johanne Duce Norfolc' ut de Mariscalcia
Anglic per servitium ob' per annum tantum."
Inq. capta 12 Aprilis anno 37 H. VI. apud Doncaster coram Will'o
Stoke escaetore. ^* Juratores dicunt quod dictus Henricus Scroppe diu
ante mortem suam fuit sesitus jure hereditario postmortem Ricardinuper
Domini le Scrope de Bolton militis patris sui ut filius et heres ejusdem
Ricardi de maneriis de Westbolton, Ridmere, Prestone, Wenlaghe, Ley-
bum, Homeby, Burton in Byshopsdale. Et sic inde seisitus omnia maneria,
&c. per cartam suam datam secundo die mensis Septembris, anno regni
regis Henrici sexti vicesimo tertio dedit et concessit Roberto Nevill
nuper Episcopo Dunel* jam defuncto, Ric'o le Scrop clerico, Will'mo le
Scrope clerico, Thome le Scrope armigero, Roberto Danby Justiciario,
Joh'i Lounde clerico, habend' sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum. Et
sic inde seisiti dederunt, &c. Johanni Domino le Scrop jam defuncto
et aliis ad usum predicti Henrici le Scrop. Et dicunt quod Thomas Scrope
armiger avunculus predicti Henrici domini le Scrope, fuit nuper seisitus
de xl. messuagiis &c, et dedit per cartam suam datam 7 Nov. 27 Hen.
VL Magistro Ric' Scrope clerico Rectori ecclesie de Wensley et aliis ad
' See the whole inscription in Nichols^ Leicestershire sub Bradley, in which he
is said to have been *' Progenie clarus, Scrouporum sanguine.*'
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
UBum predict! Henrici Lescrop. Obiit iste Henricus dominus Scrope 14
Januarii anno 37 H.VI. et Joliannes le Sctope' armiger est filing et heres
ejus propinqiiior et fuit in feato Sancte Marie Magdalene ultimo preteritt)
"Y RicnuRD ofScropeknyght Lord of Bolton kavyngwellmy wyttes
— ^To be byryed atte the Abliey of Seynt Agase in Rycliemondscbyre —
Abbey of Seynt Agase xA of gold — that Thomas be pay d of the good that
ys owand hym — he to make a state of Pysso ' to niyn executo's as good
as has eny — Syr Rauffof Guyr be payd of the good that is owand tyll
hym of the manor of Langtey and Watsalle — he to make astate in tlie
same land." He ordered that there should be " founden v prestes for
me and t clerkes and iij pou' men — yika prest to have xij marc and yike
clarkvj mark, yike pou'' man ij marks — unto the tyme that myn e
tours may gete lycens of the Kyng and of the Pope lo founde a Colege
for the prestes &c.— Myn eieculours to make the cost of the byggyng
and the arayng of the sayd College — To the Churche werkes of York x/.
— iiij ordres of Freres in York and Freres in Rychemond to pray for me
— My younger son' that y have be my wyfF that he be gov'ned be
myn enecutours — he have xxl. of lyflod when he comys to full age
duiyng his lyve. — An neys Marshal! lo have xsMyll here maryage and she
be well gov'ned. — Y wyll that the eldest sone y have by here have xx/.
of gold. — Yoiig' sone that y have by here xxl. and they be gov'ned by
myn executo'a. — Cosyn mayster Marmnduc Liimley to have all the lond
in Bysschop Ryke of Derham tim of hys lyf ewtakeLangley and Watsalle.
— Yif so be thai the Kyng be good lord to myn executours and to my
wyll I wyll forgeve half the gold that the Kyng awe for my wages npon
weddys.' — Cosyn Marmaduk Lumley, a cuppe of sylver ys callid the Con-
stable boUe. — My Lorde of Clarence nl /.—He appointed " my Lord of
Clarence and my cosyn mayat'r Marmadue Lumley clerke," his executors.
— Y beseche my lorde of Clarence that hebe good lord and myn executour
' According [o the Inquisition taken at "Woubom Chapeli" in Bedfordshire,
John le Serope Knight, vfas tweniy-/iuo years of age.
' Tlie Manor of Pisboo, In HerlfoTdshirc.
' Apparently Richard, aftei-wards Bishop of Carlisle, who was Ihen aboul a
year old.
* His wages for serving in the wars of France, for the payment of which he had
I. raceived weddys, i. e. pledges or security, which probably consisted of plate or
jewels.
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76 HISTORY OF THE
as my tryste ys in hym above all other creatures. — Wreten at Rone xxiiij
Janyii* 7 H. V.'" 1420. — Proved 8 November 1420 before Mr. John
Gascoigne by MaiTnaduk Lumley.
ABSTRACT OF THE WILL OF JOHN, FIFTH LORD SCROPE OP BOLTON,
1494—1498.
" At Estharlyng S July 1494 I John Lorde Scrop. — To be beryed in the
Abbey of Seynt Agas in Yorke Shyre yf I deceasse in the forsaid Shyre,
and yf in the Shyre of Norff than to be byryed in the queer of the
Blake Fryers in Thetforde or in another as convenyent. — Wyffe Anne,
goods, &c. — Sone and heir Henry Scrop, stuff at Bolton Castle &c. — said
Sonne, plate which I leyd to plegge to St. Christopher's gylde in York. —
Residew to my executrice or executours. — I name my wiff Anne now
Lady Scrop, sole executrice, which charge if she take I name coadjutors
Guy Fayrefax, Henry Heydon knyghts, Willy am Berdewell Esq. Henry
Spelman, John Aylwerd, P'sson of Estharlyng, and John Paynot P'sson
of Westonfavell — if she refuse, then I ordayne my seid son Henry Scrop,
Guy Fayrefax and Henry Heydon knyghts, executours, and Willyam Ber-
dewell, Henry Spelman, my broder Thoms Metcalff of Nappay, and the
others, coadjutors — Surveyours Bishop of Ely, my Lord Privy Seall, the
Erie of Oxinford and the Earle of Surr."
Codicyll dated 8th August 1498 which *' though I be not in power to
subscribe it with myn ease yet I comaund and will that it be sealed with
myn armys and privy signett. — ^To my lady my moder, a cuppe, &c. —
To Syr Henry Scrop, my son and heir my parlement Roobys. — Wiff Ann,
Lady Scrop, surplusage of the revenues of the manor of Harleston. — Mais-
ter Rauff Scrop, my broder, lityll bibyll at Bolton. — Robert Scrop, my
broder, my chamelett gowne. — Abbey of St, Agas, my bybill imprented
and my book also imprented called Cronica Cronicar*. — To the College of
Russheworthe, vestments. — Wife Anne, rev'sion of lands in Suffolk after
her decease to litill John Scrop and the heirs of his body lawfully coming
— remaynderto son Henry Scrop. — Lady my moder Elisabeth to holde for
lyff, manors &c. which she had of the gyft of my lorde my fader Henry
Lord Scrop." — Feoffees to be enfeoffed of my manors of Disford, Rayn-
ton, Norton and Synderby, M idyl ton Quemow, Sutton Howgrave, and
Thomebargh, Fencotez, Fletham and Uckurby co. York for wife Anne,
if she be my executrix ; if not, to hold the same for ten years, to pay
debts, &c. — also said feoffees to be enfeoffed of my manors of Bryg-
nail and Homeby co. York — after decease of my mother, all lordships
»
I Lord Scrope was at the siege of Rouen in 1419, and early in 1420.
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FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 77
Sic. which belong to her, to remain to my son and bis heirs, that of
Hamylden excepted for three years. — If my said son act contrary to my
will, my manor of Pysho with the park in Sabrigeworth co. Herts,
manours of Rampton and Cotenham ro. Carabrigge &c. to be sold and
given by my said wife unto som other worshipfull man Slc. — " Whereas
I and my seid son Henry for dyv's causes concernyng the mariage of
Alice doughter and heir of my cosyn Scrop of Upsale the which is
maryd to his eldest son, stonde bownde to the Kyng to pay to hvni
400 marcs beside 100 that I have payed to the Kyng for the same cause,
it is aggred betwix me and the said Henry that if 1 decesse before it
be all payd, the said Henry shall pay the same reaidew, for which I
grant hym to enjoy all the londs &c. which were my seid cosyn's Scrop
of Upsale, which shall com to myn hands, duryng the seid doughter's
noneage — Whereas T have granted to my said son towarde the maryage
of his doughter Elizabeth to be maryed to a gentilman clepid StapilLon
400 marcs."
Proved 8 November 1498 by the procurator for Henry Lord Scrop
of Bolton, executor.
OF THE WILL OF ANNE, WIDOW OF JOHN, FOURTH LORD SCROPE
OF BOLTON, 1498.
Anne Scrop, Lady Scrop of Harlyng— KSlh August, 1498— To be
buryed in the chapell of Seynt Anne joyned to the chauncell of the
churche of the holy appoatellis of Seint Peter and Paule in Estharlyng
in the tombe with my late worshipfull husbond Sir WiU'm Chamber-
layn — High awter &c. of said chirche 100s.— Said chirche of Harlyog ij
clothes for the high awter of russelt velvett and pondered Ac. — To oure
Ladye awter wher my fader ligh in the seid chirche. — Church of Quyden-
ham 26s.— St. Mary chirche of Stratton 40s. ifec — Chirche of Barnham-
brom 20s. — Chirche of Bekerston 6s. 8d. &c. — Chirche of Lounde 13s. 4d.
Jkc.— Chapel of our Lady in Wakton 6s. 8d. Ac— College of Russhe-
worthe, vestments, &c. — Gunvyle-hall, Cambridge, vestments, &c. —
Chirches of Foxton, Weston, vestment with my huabond's arms Sit
Will'm and mine departed.— Churches of Omberton, Addyngton, Gad-
desden, Stanford, Lorton, Blondeston, Lirlyng in Newton, Wymondham,
Gnatishall, altar cloths &c. — College of Attilburghv marcs towards repair-
ing chapel whereat myn auncestres the Mortymers ligh — Priory of Cha-
combe, a chalis and my husbond's name Sir Robert and myn upon the
foote— Friars of Thetford, white friars of Cambridge where I am foundresse,
cloths &C-— Austyn fryers in Thetford, where my great grauiidame Mar-
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78 HISTORY OF THE
gery Tudenham daughter of Sir Thomas Jenney ligh, and Dame Eliza-
beth Hengrave her daughter. — Priories of Bokmham (wfaeie ligh of myn
auncestres), Letheryngham, Westacre, Castelacre, noones at Tbetford,
vestments &c. — Dame Elizabeth Moantney Gs. 8d. to pray for me. —
Priouress of Lampsey and ladies there where I am suster 20s. to pray for
me. — Dame Barbara Jemyngham, my keneswoman there 6s. 8d. — Pri-
ouries &c. of Crabhouse, Sholdham, Blakbargh, Marham, Larow, Brose-
yerd (where I am suster), to pray for my soul ; Dame Anne Jemyng-
ham there my keneswoman. — Austin friars, London, where my cousin
Sir Thomas Tudenham is buryed, vestment with his arms and the aims
of Harlyng departed. — Austyn friars Norwich, where I am suster 20s.
— Grey friars of Babewell where I am suster. — Hous of Syon, where I
am suster, 40s. — Priory of St. Tdoffes, wher of myn auncestres ligh. —
Priory of Redelyngfeld.^Nevew, Robert WyngfeUL, bed, &c. — Elizabeth
Cokett 40s. &c. — Anne Bardewell 6s. 8d. &c. — Jane Poky, 40s. — Anne
Cathorp 20s. &c. — Margaret HowyslSs.4d.&c — Jone Kirstemas, 15s.4d.
— Niece Elizabeth Wyngfeld, my god-daughter, beeds which were
my suster*s Dame Elizabeth Wyngfeld. — Niece Elianore gown &c —
Anne and Elizabeth Brampton, frontletts &c. — ^Anne Spelman, bonnet,
&c. — Jane Hasset, gown &c. — Old BardewelFs wyf, gown &c. — Mar-
g^aret Chamberlayn, gown &c. — Sir John Hamelyn, the steward 5 marcs.
— My lady, my lord's moder, sawter, &c. — ^To my lady, wyff to my son,
now Lord Scrop, gyrdylL — My yonge lady of Upsall, a glas &c. — Yche
of my lord my 8on*s daughters, a remembraunce. — Litell John Scrop, my
botell cheyned &c. — Son Lord Scrop, a bolle. — Broder Maister Rauff,
goblet. — Broder Robert Scrop, crewse of sylver for Renysshe wyne. —
Suster Bygott — Sister Radcliff. — Suster Katherine. — Nece Wymondham
— Son Henry Scrop, a white roosse with a balys &c. — My Lorde of Suff,
my godson, a premer which Kynge Edward gaufie me. — Lady of Ozin-
ford, coffer. — My lorde of Surrey a Frenche book, called the Pistill of
Othia. — ^Lady of Surrey, a demyssent &c — My lord Howard, a ring &c.
— Lady Jane Knyvett, spoon of beryl &c. — Sister Dame Elizabeth Wyng-
feld, white ruban &c — Sbter Dame Anne Wyngefeld, towels &c. —
Nece Anne Echingham, ring &c. — Niece Katherine Brewse, ring &c. —
Yche of my nevews, my suster Dame Elizabeth^s childem, an old noble,
and over that to my nevew Sir Edward, a Frenche book. — Nevew Sir
John, a cup whiche I have to plegge of his, so that he pay £l0 to myn
oxGCUtour»,— Cosyn Dame Elizabeth Chamberieyn, girdle &c. — God-
daughter Anne Knyvett, gold chain &c. — Cossyn Dame Elizabeth
Foikewe, a forke for grene gynger. — Cosain Dame Elizabeth Cal-
thorpe, ipoon for grene gynger. — Niece Margaret Berdewell, bed
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 79
&c. — Anne Everton, towel &c. — Cossen Dame Ele*^ Lovell, ring.
— Her daughter Anne» my grand-daughter. — ^Anne Este, ring. — Ka-
therine Lenthorp, ewes &c. — Dorothe Curson, ring &c. — Dame Anne
Blakeney, whyte booke of prayers — Broder WylFm Wyngfeld, spoon.
— Sir John Benyngham, Sir Wyll'm Knyvett, Sir John Paston,
Sir Wyll'm Wyndham, Sir Robert Clere, Sir Wyll'm Boleyn, Sir
Robert Lovell, Sir Gregory Lovell, spoons &c. — Sir Henry Heydon,
cup.^--01d Wyll'm Bardewell, cup, and I pray him, after his decease
he will leve it to his daughter my nece Margaret. — Sir Henry Hug.
gard, Richard and Robert Southwell, Humphrey Catty sby, Roger
Pilkington, Richard Puddisey, Roger Palle, Robert Harydunce, John
and Edward Jemyngham, Robert Barnard, Thomas Blake, Robert and
William Brampton, John Hassett, each a spoon. — Will'm Bardewell the
younger, an old noble.— Robert Bardewell, my godson, ewes &c. —
Will'm Mountney and Will'm Chamberlayn, my godson, ewes &c —
Will'm Tyllys, pair of fustians &c. — Robert Bastard, a bed &c. — John
Yaxley, the serjeant, a spoon &c. — Groddaughter Ursula Fitzwater, yf
she be a woman of religion, 5 marcs — Groddaughter Anne Fitzwater, to
pray for me, a premer. — Sir Thomas Lovell, a garter of gold. — Syster
Wyndham, girdle. — Dame Anne Heydon, girdle. — Old Southwell's wyff,
a coffer &c. — ^Thomas Fynchin, bedde &c. — Cosyn Anne Henyngham,
Margaret Jemyngham, M*** Yaxley, each a sampler &c. — Elizabeth
Denton, girdle. — Anne and Mary Teryngham, each a pair of sheets. —
Niece Margaret Bardewell, bedde &c. — Nephew Robert Wyngfeld and
Sir Thomas Fyncham, 2 quart pots &c. — Thomas Mayhewe 20s. — Niece
Eleinor bedes. — Executours my nevew Robert Wyngfeld Esq. which I
have brought up sythen he was a child of iij yeres old, my cosyn Will'm
Bardewell the elder, maister Thomas Fyncham, and Sir John Candisshe,
parson of Quydenham.
Proved 8 November 1498, by Robert Wyngfeld and Thomas Fyn-
cham, executours, Will'm Bardewell renouncing, and power reserved to
Sir John Candisshe.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS TO THE MEMORY OF THE
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
In Wenslay Church.
On a marble stone ;
** Hac teguntur humo Henricus Scrop Richardusque D'nl Henrici
de Bolton et Mabillse uxoris suce minores natu liberi : Quorum alter
xxv° die decessit Martii : Alter xxviij° Julij A** D'ni Mo DXXV."
80 HISTORY OF THE
Upon a wooden pew formerly belonging to the dissolved Coenobium of
St Agatha, near Richmond»
** Here lyeth Henry Scrope Knight the vii of that nayme the ix
Lord of Bolton and Mabeli his Wyefe Doughter to the Lord Dakers
de Grays. Here lyeth Henry Scrope Knight the Third of that name
and The Right [Honorable] Lord Scrope of Bolton and Elizabeth his
Wife daughter "
In the Church of Stoke Rochford in Lincolnshire ,
Is the following inscription to the memory of Blizabeth daughter of
Henry fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton, and her husband.
" Pray for the soil of Mastyr Olyv* Sentjohn 'squier sonne unto y'
right excellent hye and mightty prynces duchess of Som'sptt, g'ndame
unto ou' Sov'eyn Lord Kyng Herre the vij. and for the soil of dame
Elizabeth Bygod his wiff, whoo dep'ted frome this t'nsitore liffe y* vij
day of June i' y' yeer of ou' Lord M CCCCC. and in."
In llamhleden Church,
On the tomb of Ralph Scrope, Prebendary of Ailesbury, Rector of
Hambleden in Bucks, and Archdeacon of Northumberland, younger
son of Henry fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton.
** Of your charite praye for the soul of maister Rauffe Scrope, some
tyme person of this Church, which decessed the 20 day of March in the
yere of our Lord 1516, whose soule God pardon."
On the tomb of Robert Scrope, another son of Henry fourth Lord
Scrope of Bolton.
'^ Orate pro animabus Roberti Scrope et Katerine uxoris sue. Hie
autem obiit xxv die Augusti A. D. mill'mo quingent'mo "
In Langar Church in Nottinghamshire.
On a large Monument, with effigies, arms, &c.
*« The Right Honourable and Noble Lord Thomas Lord Scrope,
Baron of Bolton, Masham, and Upshall, of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter Knight, Lord Warden of the West Marches, Steward
of Richmond and Richmondshire, and Bow-bearer of all his Majesty's
Parks, Forests, and Chaces within the same, lyeth here buried, and dyed
the 2** day of September, anno Dom. 1609.
" The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Scrope, &c. married the
Right Honourable Lady Philadelphia, daughter to the Right Honourable
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 81
Lord Henry Carie^ Baron of Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain to our late
Queen Elizabeth her Majesty's Household, who died the $ of February
1627, and had issue only one son, Emanuel Scroope/' &c.
In the Church of Wivenhoe, to. Essex ^
On the tomb of Elizabeth daughter and coheiress of Sir Richard Scrope,
second son of Henry fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton.
** Of your charitie pray for the soule of the high and noble Lady
Elizabeth Scroope, first married to the noble Lord William late Vycount
Beaumond, Lord Comyn, Bardolphe, Phelip> and Erpingham ; and after
wife unto the high and noble Lord John, sumtyme Earl of Orford, High
Chamberlin of England and Admiral of the same, Vycount Bulbeck,
Lord Scales, Councellor to our Soveraint Lord the King, and Knight of
the most noble Order of the Garter. The which Lady Elizabeth departed
to God the 26 day of June 1537, on whose soule and christen soules
Ihu have mercy."
In the Church of Castle Hedingham, in Essex,
To Dorothy, another daughter and coheiress of the said Sir Richard
Scrope.
** Prey for the soul of Dorothy Scroope, dawghter of Richard Scroope,
brother to the Lord Scroope, who 1491."
NOTICES OF ARMS OF SCROPE OF BOLTON, AND OF
THEIR CONNEXIONS.»
In IVenslay Church,
The following arms and inscriptions were extant on the 18th October
1622, in Wenslay Church :
On the wall, towards the cemetery, the following shields of arms, viz.
1. A bend, and in the sinister chief point an annulet [[Scrope.]
2. A fess between three leopards' faces [De la Pole.]
3. Three chevronels interlaced in base, and a chief Or [Fitzhugii.]
4. A bend, surmounted of a label [Scrope of Masham.]
5. Abend [Scrope.]
6. Three waterbougets [Roos.]
♦ From a MS. in the College of Arms, entitled " Dugdale's Yorkshire Arms,"
and the Collection therein of " Arms, epitaphs, and inscriptions in churches and
houses in that county, made by Roger Dodsworth between 1618 and 1629.*'
VOL. n. M
82 HISTORY OF THE
7. A saltire [Neville.]
8. A saltire between four martlets [Oysell.]'
Upon the door of a wooden pew which formerly belonged to the
dissolved Coenobium of St Agatha,
9. A shield charged with the arms of Scrope, impaling Chequy a
fess [Clifford.]
Around the said pew are the figures of several Lords Scrope of Bolton
with their arms ; the names, which remained in 1622, are as follow:
1
2. Henry the first.
)
10. Arms under each figure,
Azure, a bend Or [Scrope.]
4
5. Phylipe the fyrst
6. Symond the fyrst.
7. Henry the second.
8. Wyllyem the fyrst.
9. Henry the third.
10. H . . . .
11. Scrope, impaling Or, a fess between two chevronels Gules
[Fitzwalter] with this inscription, " Henry the fyrst the first Lord
Scrop."
12. Scrope, impaling Gules^ three waterbougets Argent [Rods]
with this inscription, ** Wylliam Scrop the Second."
IS. Scrope, impaling Azure^ a fess between three leopards faces Or
[De la Pole] with this inscription, *' Richard the first of the name."
14. Scrope, impaling Argent, a Saltire engrailed Gules [Tiptoft]
with this inscription, ** Roger the first."
15. ScROPE quartering Tiptoft, impaling Gules, a Saltire Argent
[Neville] with this inscription, " Rychard Scrop the Second."
16. Scrope quartering Tiptoft, impaling Scrope of Mash am,
within the Order of the Garter,* and with this inscription, " Henry the
Second."
17. Scrope quartering Tiptoft, impaling Fitzhugh quartering
Azure, a Lion rampart Or [. . . .]
» See Gale's " Registram Honoris de Richmond,'' Appendix, p. 56, where the
arras of Oysell are given, Argent, a saltire eugrailed between four birds Sable.
The family of Oysell held lands in Richmondshire adjoining to Wenslay, and
probably contributed, with the Nevilles, Lords of Middleham, to the erection of
Wenslay church.
* It is nowhere stated that Henry fourth Lord* Scrope of Bolton, who married
£lizabeth daughter of John Lord Scrope of Masham, was a Knight of the Garter.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 83
In the North Window
18. Azure, a Chief indented Or[FiTz Randolf ofSpennithorne.]
19. Argent, a Lion rampant Azure [query Cleseby.]
20. Argent, a Lion rampant double queuee Sable, charged on the
shoulder with a mullet Or [query Stapleton.]
21. Azure, three chevronels interlaced in base Or, a chief of the last
[FiTZHUOH.]
22. De la Pole, as before.
23. SCROPE.
In Svnllington Churchy co. York,
SCROPE.
Or, a lion rampant Azure [Percy.]
Gules, three ivaterbougets Argent [Roos.]
Cheque Or and Azure, a fess Gules [Clifford.]
Scrofe.
In the Churches of Bolton Percy and Kippaxy co. York.
Azure, a bend Or, within a bordure Gules, charged with mitres Or.
Probably the arms of Richard Scrope Bishop of Carlisle.
In York Cathedral,
Scrope of Bolton.
Scrope of Bolton, the bend charged with a crescent.
Scrope of Bolton, on the bend a lozenge charged with a saltire.
Azure crusilly and a quintfoille Or [Umfreville.]
In Pocklington Church.
Or, a fesse dancette Sable [Vavasour] with an impalement of Scrope
OF Bolton quartering Tiptoft and Scrope of Masham.
In Staynton Churchy co> York.
Scrope, impaling Argent, a saltire engrailed Gules [Tiptoft.]
In Masham Church.
On a tomb.
WyviLL^i/^r^eringPiooT, Fitz Randolf and Scrope of Masham,
impaling Azure, a bend Or, in the sinister chief point a crescent Argent
[Scrope.]
In Richmond Churchy co. York.
Scrope of Bolton.
Scrope of Bolton quartering Tiftoft.
M 2
Bl HL^roRv or the
In Cnft Ckmrck, r^ York,
Sciiopc qMortenrng Tinorr, viikiii tb« Ga/ler.
Im Arketcw Ckmrck, eo. Tort.
Azare^ a bend Or wiih a label Argent ^Sckope.]
Argent, a taltire engrailed Gules [Tirrorr.j
ScEOPE qmarttrimg Argent, a sahire engrailed Goles [Tiprorr.^
In the tooth «iDdov, the effigj of a man kneeling, witli these am» :
ScEOpE qmarttrimg TiPTorT, with a mallei on the centre point, and
this inscription : *' Orate pro animabos omniom Benefactonim Magistri
RiCAKDi ScKOPE, qui istam fenestram Titramnt.'*
Pmmicd Glass is York Minster,^
Third window of the clerestory of the Quire on the North side.
In the 9th light of the upper tracerr abore the great lights. An an-
gel robed Gules, winged Or, with an escocheon of arms on his breast
charged with Azure a bend Or within a bordure compony Or and Gules.
The bordure is not at present risible.
In the next, the 8th light. Another angel robed Sanguine with these
arms on his breast. Azure, a bend Or [Scrope] impalimg Or, a lyon ram-
pant Sable [Welles.]
In another light is the image of a Pope with the legend **^ Sanctus
Stephanus Papa** underneath ; at the bottom, a row of fire escocheocs of
the arms of Scrope of Bolton.
In Crojfland Churchy co- Lincoln*
In one of the windows.
Azure, a bend Or [Scrope of Boltoh.]
In Stoke Rockford Churchy co, Lincoln,*
In one of the windows.
Quarterly Or and Gules, within a bordure Sable bezantee [Roch-
ford] impaling Azure, a bend Or [Scrope of Bolton.]
In another window.
Rochford quartering Scrope of Bolton.
Scrope quartering Tiptoft.
' Copied from Torre's MS. description of York Minster, remaining in the office
of the Register of the Dean and Chapter in York, and compared with the glass at
present remaining.
« Uarleian MS. 6829, f. 239- * Ibid. f. 273.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
FATBNT ?0R8IDD1NC ;OHH LORD EGROPS OP BOLTON TO BBAR THE ARMS
OF THB ISLB OF MAN IN THE EXPEDITIOK INTO PKANCE 15 EDW. IV.
" Rex omnibus ad quoa &c- salutem. Sciatis quod Inspeximus
Literas nostras, sub sjgno nostro manuali signatas, et per Milites Garterce
Dostite inspectas, factas io h^c verba. Edward, hy the grace of God,
King of England and of Fraunee, Lord of Ireland, &c. Remembryng
tbe pretence and clayme of John Lord Scrop, shewed unto us, for the
beryng of th' Armes of th' Erie of Man, which nowe oure right trualie
and right wel beloved Thomas Lord Stanelej Stuard of oure House-
holde berith, for brevenes of tyme havyng no convenyant season to know
the deterinynation of the same, and provydyng that no variaunce be
hadde nowe in oure voiage, Have wolled and desyred that for the tymes
and seasons that the seid Lordes shall contynue in oure service, in oure
Realme of Fraunee, Duchie of Normandie, and els where byyonde the
See, and also unto oure and their retournyng next to this oure Realme
of England, or either of theym, that the said Lord Scrop shall absteyne
and forbere the use and weryng of the seid Armes of th' Erie of Man,
whereunto for the seid desire he is agrede, Alwey forseyn that the seid
will, desire, ab.flinence, and forberyng be not prejudicial! nor damage in
that behatve unto the seid Lord Scrop, ne to his heyres, nor be of non
effect, strength, nor vertue, but for the tyme above expressed. El hoc
omnibus quorum interest in hac parte innotescimus per prssentes. In
cujus &c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium primo die Maii [15 Edw.
IV. 1475.]— Pat. 15 Ed. IV. p. 2. in. 24. Fffidera, vol. V. p' iii, p. 60.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MACD lADY PABRF, WIDOW OF SIR THOMAS
PARKE, AND THOMAS LQKD DACRE OF GILLGSLAND, IN 1523, BF.LATIVE TO
A MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE SON AND HEIR APPARENT OF HENRY LORD
SCROPE OF BOI.TON AND KATHERINE PARUE DAUGHTER OF THB SAID
LADY PARRE, WHO AJTEUWARDB MARRIED KING HENRY THE EIGHTH."
Henry Lord Scrope of Bolton married Mabell daughter of Thomas
Lord Daere, and the heir apparent of Lord Scrope mentioned in these
letters, was his grandson, which explains the interest Lord Dacre mani-
fested respecting his marriage. Henry Scrop« must have been a child
at tbe period in question.
' See the Noles al the end of the Volume.
' These inleresiing letters are copied from Whitaker's History of Kichroond-
sbire, vol. i. p. 384 et xeq.
86 HISTORY OF THE
MAUD LADT PARRE TO THOMAS LORD DACRB.
" Most honorable and my very good Lord, I hertly recommend me
unto you. Where it pleasid you att your last beyng here to take payn
in the mater in consideracion of marriage between the Lord Scrop*s son
and my doughtor Kateryne, for the whiche I hertly thank you ; at
which time I thought the matter in good furtherance. Howe bee yt,
I perceyve that my seid Lord Scrop is not aggreable to that considera-
cion, as more playnly may appere unto you by certeyn articles sent
to me from my seyd Lord, the coppy of which articles I send you herein
inclosyd. My Lord's pleasour is to have a full answere from me before
Lammas next comyng, wherefore it may please you to bee so good to have
this mater in your remembraunce, for I perceyve well this matter is
not lyke to take effecte, except it be by y^ur helpe. The joyntour
is lytle, for xj c marcs whiche I woll nott passe^ and my seyd Lord wyll
DOtt repay after marriage hadd, and cc marcs must nedys be repayd
yf my doughter Kateryne dys before the age of xvj yeres, or ells I
shuld breke Master Parr's wyll,^ whiche I shold be lothe to doo ; and
ther can be no perfyte marriage untill my Lord*s son come to the
age of xiiij. and my doughter to the age of xij, before whiche tyme, if
the marriage shuld take none effect, or be dissolved, either by deth,
wardshipp, disagrement, or othei'wyse, whiche may bee before thatt
tyme, notwithstondinge marriage soiemnysed, repayment must nedes be
hadd of the hole, or ells I myght fortune to pay my money for no thin ge.
As for the daye of payment, I am content with the first day, and the
resydue of his days of payment bee too shortt for me. Gladd I wold be
to have the mater goe forthe yf itt myght be convenyently : yff it please
you to call to remembraunce the communicacion before yow at Greenewiche
was that I shold paye att your desyre xj c marcks, whereof c marcs
in hand, and every yere after c marcs, whiche is as muche as I may
spare, as you knowe ; and for thatt my doughtor is to have c marcs
joyntour, whereof l marcs I to have for her fynding until they warre
able to lye together, and then they to have the hole c marcs, and
repayment to be hadd yf the marriage took nott effecte. My Lord, itt
may please you to take so muche payne as to helpe to conclude this
matter yf it woll bee ; and yff you see any default on my partt I shall
* Sir Thomas Parre's Will, which was dated 7 November 1517, contained the
following passage : ** I will that my daughters Katherine and Anne have dccc/.
betwixt them, except they prove to be my heirs, or my son's heirs, and then I will
that they shall not, but that the said sum be bestowed in copes and vestments to be
given to the house of Clervaux.''
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 87
be ordred as ye shall deme good^ as knoweth Ihu, who preserve your
good Lordshipp. Wrytten at the Rye the xiiij day off July. My Lord,
it may please your Lordship to gyff credence to this berer.
. Your cousyn, Maud Parre."
" To the right Honorable and my singular good
Lord, my Lord Dacree, this bee delyvered."
ARTICLES FOR THE PARTE OF HENRY, LORD SCROP OF BOLTON, FOR
MARIAGE BETWEEN THE SON AND HEYRE APPARENT OF THE SAID
LORD SCROP9 AND KATERYNE PARRE, DOUGHTOR OF DAME MAUDE,
LADY PARRE.
•* Fyrst, the seid Lord Scrop is content for xj c marcs of money to
g^ffe a xl/. ffoefment, whereof x/. to be taken yerely for the ffynding of
the seid Kateryne Parre, daughter to the seid Dame Maude Parre,
and the residue of the seid feoffement to enter to them when the seid
Lord Scrop*s son and heire shalbe come to the age of xviij yeres, and
after the death of the seid Lord Scrop to make the ffeofement furth c
marcs.
" Item. Yf the Lady Parre wyll pay xij c marcs in money the ffeof-
ment to be c /. after the deth of the seid Lord Scrop, so that the hole
ffeofement remayne in the seid Lord's hands til his seid son and heire
come to the age of xviij yeres.
** Item. Of the aforeseid xj c marcs, vj c marcs to be payed att
the synyng of the indentures of covenante, and v c marcs to be payed
in the ij yeres nexte following, by even porcions. And yf the seid Lady
Parre wylle paye xij c marcs, vj c marcs to be payed at the synyng of
the indentures of covenante, and vj c marcs to be payed in the ij yeres
nexte following by even porcions.
*• Item. The seid Lord Scrop wyll not agree to repay no money after
the marriage to be solempnyzed and executed, ne to enter into no cove-
nante by especyaltye for the governaunce of the children duryng the
nonage of them."
LORD DACRE to LADY PARRE.
" Madame, in right hartie maner I recommend me unto you, and by
thande of your servant, berer hereof, I have receved your writing, dated
at Rye the xiiij th daye of this instant moneth of July, and to me deli-
vered yesternight, to gidres with copie of certein articles to youe sent
fro my Lord Scrope touching the marriage to be had betwene his son
and your doughter Katheryne, by the contents whereof I doo perceyve
ye think that the seid mater in communicacion of mariage, which ye
88 HISTORY OF THE
thought had beene in good furtheraunce, is like to go bak, bereason that
my said Lord Scrope is not agreable to suche cominunicacion as was
had of the same at my last being with youe, for even so and many
causes specified in your said lettre and articles at length. Cousin, sens
my departure from you I assure you I was not two nights to giddres at
myne owne howse, bereason whereof I had never leisour to labour in
thes matres. And I do think, seing my Lord Scrope cannot be
contente with the communicacions that was had at my last being with
you, whiche was thought reasonable to me, and as I perceve semblably
to his counsell, that this matter cannot be brought to no perfect end
without mutuall communicacion to be had with my said Lord, aither by
my self, my son, or my brother. Wherefore, as sone as conveniently
any of us may be spared, this matter shalbe laboured, trusting veryly
that I shall bringe it to a good pointe, and as I shal do therein ye
shalbe advertised at length. I have promise of my said Lord, and of
my doughter, his wif, that they shal not marie their son without my
consent, which they shall not have to no person but unto youe : and
undoubtedly my said Lord must nedes have some money, and he has
nothing to make it of but onely the marriage of his said son, wherefore
my full counsaill is, that ye be not over hasty, but sufire, and fynally
ye shalbe well assured that I shall doo in this mattre, or in any other
that is or may be aither pleasure, pro6tte, or suyrtie, to you or my said
cousin, your daughter, that lieth in my power. At Newcastell, the
penult daye of Julii, a*» xv^ H. VIIL'* [1528.]
LADY PARRE TO LORD DACRB.
** Right honorable and my singular good Lord, I reccommend me unto
you : I have receyved your lettre dated at Newcastell the penult day of
July, and by the same 1 perceye your pleasure, and also what payn ye
intend to take in the matter betwene my Lord Scrope and me, for the
whiche I hartely thank you. The Lord Scrope seid to a servant of myne
that he wold no longer drive tyme in that matter with me, but he would
be at large, and take his best advantage as with the Lord Treasurer,
whiche had made mocons to be in communicacon with him. Therefore
it may please you at your convenyent leysour to have this matter in
your remembraunce, and thus I am alweys bold to put your Lordship to
peyns and busines, which I pray God I may some parte defray, which
shuld not be failed if it lyeth in my poure, be the grace of Ihu, who
preserve your good Lordship. Wrettyn at Esthamsteed, this xxij daie of-
August. [1523.] Your
" To the Right Honorable and my syngler
good Lord, my Lord Dacre." ^^^^ Parre.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLT0\.
LORD DACRE TO LORD SCKOPE.
" Mt Lord and Son, I tecomraende me unto you in right hartie man-
ner, and by thande of your servant bringer hereof yesterday, I receved
your writing dated the x"' daye of this instant moncth, I onderstanding
therby that for suche communications as has been had and moved be-
tweiie my Lady Parr and yowe by your couneells concerning the mar-
riage of your Bonne and myn' according to the tenour thereof, ye have
now sent with your servant, this said bringer, the articles of the same,
wherein ye desire that ye may knowe my aunnwer in writing; and, fur-
ther, tliat ye wold be sorry for any suchc coosideracious that any long
drife were made therein, as further your said writing purporletb. My
Lorde, your son and heire is the gretesl jewel! that ye can have, seeing
that he must present your owne person after your delh, unto whome I
pray God len long yeares. And yf ye be disposyd to marie him, or he
be com to full age, when he may have som hym self, I
cannot see, without that ye wold mary him to one heire of land, whiche
wolbe ryght costly, that ye can raary hym to bo good a stole as my Lady
Parr, for divers considerations; first, as remembring the wisdome of my
seid Lady, and the god wise stok of the Grenea' whereof she is comen,
and also of the wise stok of the Pars of Kendale, for al whiche r
doo looke when they do mary their child, to the wiaedorae of the blood
of that they do mary with. I speke not of the possibilitie of my Lady
Parr's daughter, who has but one child betwene her, and viij c marcs
land to inherit thereof. Such possybilitiea dolh oftyntymes fall, and I
gpeke it because of the possibilitie that befelle unto myselfe by my
manage,' and therefor, in myn opinion, the same is to be regarded.
My Lord, to declare unto you trewely, I assure you your copie of articles
conteyning your demands, which ye have now sent, and my Ladi's de-
maunds, is so far in sundre, that in manner it is unpossible that ever
ye shall agree in that behalf; wherefore, if ye can be content to go
gtoundlye to work, and go to a short conclusion, I think it best that
ye goo after the comon course of mariage, that a to sey, to geve c
' i, e. Ihe writer's grandson.
' Maud Lady Parre was die second of tlie two daughters and coheirs of Sir
Thotoas Gi«en, of Green's Norton in Northamplon shire, KnL hy Jane, daughter
of Sir John Fogt^, Knt.
' Lard Dacre married Elizabeth, daughter and heires.i of Robert, son and heir
apparent i>{ Ralph Lord Greystock, and heiress of tliat barony. It would seem
from this passage in his letter that at Uie time of his marriage lady Dicre had
either a brother or sister, who afterwards died unmairied.
VOL. II. N
1
90 HISTORY OF THE
marcs joynt* for the payment of xj c marc8, that is to sey, iiij or v c
marcs to be peyed at the making up of the covenante, and c/. yerely,
unto suche tyme as the som be fully ron, the one child to be in the
kepinge of my seid Lady ; and if it fortune the said persons one or other
of them to die befoer cainall copulation had betwixt them, or before
thage of consentment^ then the som receyved to be repayed at suche
dayes and after suche forme as it was delivered, without new mariage
may be had with the yong child, for I think it is not convenient nor
prouffitable that c marcs should go out yerely of your land to so yong
a person as my said Lady eldest doghter, if it fortune, as God defend,
that your said son and myne die. And thus, my Lord, I assure you
thy 8 is thelFecte of my opynyons ; and if ye can thus be content, the
matter shall shortly take effect. Also, 1 think it good, but 1 wold not
have it comprised in the covenante, that during the tyme of iij yeres,
by whiche tyme my seid son and yours woU com to consentment, that he
shold be with my said Lady if she kepe her wedowhede, and ye to fynd
bym clothing, and a servant to adwate upon him, and she to find hym
mete and drink, for I assure you he mought lerne with her as well as yn
any place that I knowe, as well norture» as Frenche and other language,
whiche me semes were a comodious thinge for hym. At Morpeth, the
xvij. day of December, a° xV» H. VIIL 1523."
LADY PARRE TO LORD DACRE.
** Right honorabull and my syngler good Lord, I hertly recommend
me unto you, thankyng you of your manyffold paynes taken between my
Lord Scropp and me, and concernyng the same I have receyved your
lettres, and my Lord Scropp's also, and right well perceyve the contents
of the same ; wherein I have takyn advice of my Lord of London,' and
dyvers other of my husband's ffriends and myn, who thinke thatt my
seid Lord Scropp's offer, as well concernynge the joynter as the repament
off my money, is so littill and so farr from the customs of the cuntre, and
his demand is so greatt and so large off me, with the shortt paymentt,
that my seyd ffrends woll in no wyse thatt I shall medle with the seyd
bargane after my seid Lord Scropp's offer and demand.
" My Lord, seynge this matter hathe beyn so longe in communica-
cion I am ryght sorie on my parte it can nott take effecte, for in good
faith hetherto I never had communication for no maryage to herr, for
thatt I wold have beyn so gladd shuld have goon forward as this, or ells
I wold not have made so large offors for the forderaunce of the same as
' Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.
I have. My Lord, I beseehe you to be good Lord unto my cousin, the
berer, in suche cause as he hath to do in your parties, that the rather
through your good helpe he may obteyn his right of suche thinges as his
father gave hym in his bequest, the whyche shalbe hard for liim to ob-
teyn without your favor. And thus the Ho-ly Goost preserve your good
Lordship to his pleasure.
From the Court at Greenwiche, this xv daye of Marcbe. [1 523-4.]
" To the Right Hononibie my Lord Your
of Dacres thys be delyvored." Maud Parhe."
LORD DACRE TO LADY PARRE.
" Madame and Cousin, in right hertie wis
you. I have reeeved your writing dated at Greenewich the IS"" daye of
Marcbe instant, by the contents whereof I do perccyve that upon the
sight of my late writdng sent unto you concerning the mariage of my
Lord Scrop's and myn, and my cousin, your doughter, ye have taken
advice of my Lord of London and other of your (Trends, who thinlce
that my Lorde Scrope's ofFre, as well concernyng the joyntour as the
repayment of your money, is so litell, and so farr from the custome of
the countrie, and his demaund so grete, thai your seid ffrendea will
in no wise that ye shuld medle with the seid bargane afire my seid
Lord Scrope's offre and demaund, whereof ye here semblaunce to be
«jry, and that ye had never no communicacion of mariage towards her
that ye wold have benne so glad shuld have gon forwarde, as more at
large your seid lettre specifyeth, Madame, for my parte 1 am sory
that ye be thus converted in this matter, seyng the labour that I have
made in it, wbiche was moost for the atrengthe of my frendghip for my
seid cousin, your daughter, assuring you that ye shall not marye your
doughter in any place that had benne so good and comfortable to my
seid cousin, your daughter. And concerning my Lord Scrope's de-
maunds, be demandit nothing but it that ye wore content, without the
medling of any person, to give, which was xj c marcs ; and concerning
his offre, which was c marcs joyntonr, it is not far from the custome
of the countrie, for from the highest degree unto the lowest it is cus-
tome, and is used alwes for every c marcs of money ten marcs joyntour.
But, fynally Madam, seyng that ye are thus mynded, whereat 1 am
sory as nature coustreyneth me : as it doelh pleas you in this busynes
soo shall itt please me.' And thus hertely fare ye wele.
At Morpeth, the 25th dayeof Mey, a° xvj°." [1524.]
' Tlje ireaiy for the marriage was accordingly broken oS".
N 2
92 FAMILT OF SCHOPC OF BOLTOX.
poKiKAirs or IBM riMiLT or scBorm or bouobc mow msMAiNiNG in
The Danes, » Iwre gms, occvr on the poitxaits.
1. H&SRT LdRJD SCROPI. 1
S* MikEGAftXTy^ daa. of LoKj> > In one pnintiiig:
Dacrx, wife of Lord Scfope. J
S« Jobs Loeo Scropc
4* Hkllkse* Cliffoeo, dmsghto' of the Eau. op Cumbeelakd,
wife of LOED SCEOPB.
5. Haeeik Baeox Sceopb, one of the Tihers before Queen Eliza-
betb ml the Ciownadon 155S; «I. 22.
$« Maet» dmu^iipr of Loed Noeth» first wife of Loed Sceope.
7. Mjlegaest How a ED, dmu.
oftbeDvKS of NOEFOLK,
wifeofIIsxETLi>ED$CEOPC« J^ Hicfietwo are in one painting.
S. Thomas Loed Sceope, xbU
at.
9« ExANCEL Lord Sceope Eael op Sunderland.
10* Ladi Scrope«*
]
» A mblike for Mabd.
* According to the pedigree attested by her son Henry Cholmeley, in the He-
raUi»' VUitation in 15a4> ber name was (ktktrme,
* Hc^r ^ther» the unf«artunate and gifted Earl of Suifey, was never Duke of
^ No datev She b represented in tbe costume of the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
or early in the time of James L and was probably Philadelphia^ widow of Thomas
tOth Baion Sciope» and mother of the Earl of Sunderland.
HISTORY
OP
THE HOUSE
OP
SCROPE OF MASHAM.
SCROPE OF MASHAM.
F SIR GEOFFREY LE SCROPE, -^
second son of Sir William Serope of
Bolton,' the earliest notice is in the 4th
Edw. II., when by a deed dated at Dur-
ham on Monday after the Feast of Saint
James, 27 July 1310, William de Bra-
kcnbury granted him a part of a certain
rent out of the mill of Thirsk.-
Like his elder brother, Sir Henry Serope, he studied the law,
a profession which did not, however, preclude its disciples from
sharing in the honours of the field or the tournament ; and Geof-
frey le Serope appears to have been equally distinguished as a
Knight and as a Lawyer. In the 9th Edw. II. 1315, in which
year he certified as a Lord of various townships iu Yorkshire,' he
was a Serjeant at law, and twenty pounds per annum were grant-
ed to liim for his expenses;* but before Easter 1316 he was,
according to Dugdale, one of the Judges of the Common Pleas.*
Serope was summoned to attend a Council for the first time in
July 1317, writs to the same purport, or to Parliament, being
addressed to him in his legal capacity during the remainder of the
reign of Edward the Second ; but if Dugdale be correct in stating
that he was a Judge in the 9th Edw. II., he must soon afterwards
have been deprived of the office, as he was engaged in prosecutions
for the Crown in that year,^ and was a serjeant at law so late as
' Seepage U. ' Harieian Cbarler, 113. G. 31.
' Parliaraentary Writ», vol. Ji. p' ii. 410, 411.
' Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales. ' Ibid.
' Rot. E'arl. i. 353, 353. 350 b.
1
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96 HISTORY OF THE
Sir Gzopfret the 14th Edw. 11.^ He obtained a confirmation of the manor of
SCROPE. , I» . 1. *" .
Eltham M aundevile, and the other lands of Wiluam de Vescy in
Kent in 1317;^ and in 1320 was commanded to repair to Car-
lisle to treat for peace with the Scotch.' In the same^ year, he
was one of the Justices in the county of York to punish ofifences
committed against the proclamations relative to the currency.*
Sir Geofirey Scrope was an auditor of petitions in Parliament
in October following :^ on the 16th April 1321 he was present at
the delivery of the Great Seal at Gloucester;^ and on the 13th
March 1322, the pleas of the King'^s army were held before him
and others at Tutbury, when he pronounced sentence upon Roger
d'Amory.'' There is some discrepancy with respect to the judicial
appointments held by Sir Geoffrey Scrope : Dugdale states that
he was made Chief Justice of the King'^s Bench on the 27th Sep-
tember 1323, and was constituted Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas on the 21st March following, and considers that he held the
latter situation until the 7th Edw. III.® But it is evident that
he was mistaken : Scrope was appointed a Justice of the Common
Pleas on the 27th September, 17 Edw. II. 1323,9 his nomina-
tion to the office in the 9th Edw. II. having, it may be inferred,
been rescinded soon after it was made,^^ and on the 21st March,
> Rot. Pari. i. 370. « Pat. 1 1 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 7.
* Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p' i. 230.
* Ibid, f ii. 151, 152. » Ibid.i. 221. Rot. Pari. i. 365.
• Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p* ii. 161. In the grant of a market in his
manor of Constable Burton in Yorkshire in the 15th Edw. II., the King styled him
** valetto nostro." Rot. Cart. eod. ann. The Abbot of Jervault exhibited, in
1386, a charter without date, by which Sir Geofirey Scrope, Knight, confirmed a
grant of his ancestors to that abbey. (Deposition, p. 94.) The Prior of St.
Mary's, York, produced an acquittance, also without date, under the seal of
Geoffrey Scrope, which was supposed to have been made in the reign of Edward
the First. (Deposition, p. 139.) The Cellarer of the Abbey of Fountains pre-
sented a charter without date, by which Sir Geofirey Scrope enfeofied that abbey
of a house in North Street, York ; and to that instrument a seal, with the entire
arms of Scrope, was appended. (Deposition, p. 140, 141.)
^ Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p* ii. 261. ® Origines Juridiciales.
• Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p' ii. 237.
><> In the 14th Edw. II. he is said to have acted as the King's Attorney General.
— Origines Juridiciales.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 97
17 Edw. II. 1324, he was nominated Chief Justice of the King's *
Bench.'
In March 1333, Sir Geofirey Strope, with other Justices, pro-
nounced sentence of death on Andrew de Harela at Carlisle,- and
in May in that year he was one of the ambassadors who concluded
a truce with Scotland for thirteen years.' His life is said to have
heen threatened shortly afterwards, at the instigation of Robert de
Mortimer,* and (he next notice of him, is that he was again a com-
missioner to treat for peace with Scotland, jointly with his brother
Sir Henry Scrope, in the 18th Edw. 11.^ In the 20th Edw. II.
probably as a reward for his services, be obtained a grant from
the crown of the castle and manor of Skipton in Craven, which
had belonged to the King's rebel. Roger de Clifford, to hold the
same for three years.^
■ Parliamentary Writs, ii.p'ii. 551. See also Ftedeni, ii. p' «,101. He appear»
10 have been Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the 18lh and 19lh Edw. II.
and 2, 4, 6, B, 1 a Edw. III.— Rolls of ParliameDt.
' Parliamentary Writs, voLii. p'ii. 262, 263. • Fudeia, ii. p'ii. p. 73.
* Purl. Writs, vol. ii. p'ii. p. 344. ' Fiedera, ii. p' ii. p. IIB.
' Among ihe notices of minor importance which occur of Sir Geoffrey Scrope
in Ihe reign of Edward the Second, arc the following : — On the 25lli September,
11 Edw. II. 1317, the Ring granted lo " Amicie que fuit uxor Johannis de Novo
Mercato el dilecto nobis Galfrido le Scrop, quod predicla Amicia ad toiam
vitam suam habeal liberam warennam in omoibus domioicis sula in Ka.rleton &c.
quaa lenel ad terminum vite sue el que post mortem suam ad prefiilum Galfridum
suo» reverti debent, et quod post mortem ejusdem Araicie predictus Cai-
beredes sui imperpetuura habeaut liberam warermam &c. Test, apud
die Sept."— Rot. Carl. No. 62.61, 60.
About the same lime, the King granted to " Elizabeth que fuii uxor Ade de
Novo Mercato el dilecto nobis Galfrido le Scrop, quod predicta Eliiabeth ad
tolam vitam suam habeal liberam warennam Uc. in CailetOD quaa tenet ad tenni-
num vile sue et que post morlem suam ad prefatum Galfriduro et heredes buos
revfltti debent." — Ibid.
" Hen Sic. Sciatia Etc. concessisse &c. Ade de Benton et Galfrido le Scrope el
Iveltt uxori gus, quod predictus Adam ad lotam vitam suam babeat liberam
warennam in omnibus terns &.c. quas tenet ad lermiuum vile sue et que post mor-
tem suam ad prefnios Galfridum el IvelUm et heredes suos de corporibua suis
procreates," fcc. — Ibid.
lie paid a fine lo Ihe King in the 15th Edvf. il. for licence to receive from
Henry, ilie son of Robert de Percy, cenain tenements in Whairum in Yorkihire,
VOL. II. O
Ebor.i)
98 HISTORY OF THE
Si» Geoffrey The most interesting notices of Sir Geoffrey Scrope during the
reign of Edward the Second remain to be stated. At the tourna-
ments which were held at Northampton, Guilford, and Newmarket,
he particularly distinguished himself; and it is said, that on the
former of these occasions he received the honour of Knighthood.
The statements respecting him must however be given in the
words of those who made them ; and nothing can more strongly
mark the change which has taken place in manners and usages
in this country than the fact that the individual thus comme-
morated was a Judge of the King^s Bench, and became the
Chief Justice in that Court, situations which he filled with great
propriety.
Sir Thomas Roos of Kendal, who from his advanced age in
1386 must have been one of Sir Geoffrey^s contemporaries, deposed
that he had been at divers tournaments in England, and that he
saw Sir GeffVoey Scrope " toumeyer" at Guilford in his arms,
** Azure, a bend Or, with a white label," and with a banner;
and again at the next tournament, which was at Newmarket.^
Sir William Aton stated that Sir Geoffrey, who was in his day a
noble knight, was knighted at the ^^ tournament of Northampton,
^^ and tourneyed on that occasion in the arms of Scrope with a
" white label, with a banner, and performed his part most nobly.
" Under Scrope's banner,'' he added, " many other Knights tour-
" neyed, whose names he did not then recoUect.*" ^ John Rither,
Esq. corroborated the statement of Aton, and observed, that under
Scrope's banner, at the tournament of Northampton, Sir John
Hodom of the county of Cambridge, Sir John Tempest, brother
with the advowson of that church. (Rot Orig. I. f. 1691.) In the 17th Edw. II. he
obtained a grant of the custody of the manor of Wharrom Percy, in the county of
York, during the minority of the heir of Peter de Percy, rendering yearly ten
marks (Ibid. I. 271.); and, in the same year, a release was made by Sir Stephen
Ashwey, Knight, to John de Triple, citizen of London, and Sir Geoffrey le Scrop,
Knight, of all his right in the messuages, tenements, &c. which they held by his
feoffment in the town and parish of Stevennith, excepting water and tlieir
appurtenances, which property, it seems, had been mortgaged for 200/. (Plac.
Abbrev. p. 347.)
* Deposition, p. 133. » Ibid. p. 142.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 99
of Sir Richard Tempest, and Sir Thomas Blount, cousin of the Sir Geoffrey
ScROPE.
Earl of Warwick, tourneyed and were knighted. Sir Geoffrey
having gained great fame by his deeds on that occasion.^ The
exact time when those tournaments took place is no where stated,
as the records of that reign merely contain writs prohibiting tour-
naments which were intended to be held, amongst others, at Dun-
stable in the 6th and 13th Edw. II., at Northampton, and at New-
market in the 6th Edw. II.
It appears that, on the accession of Edward the Third, Sir
Geoffrey Scrope was suspected of having acted traitorously to-
wards the late King ; but on the testimony of the Peers in Par-
liament, that he had conducted himself in a loyal manner, he
obtained a special pardon, and was again made Chief Justice of the
King's Bench on the 28th February 2 Edw. III. 1328.« On the
23rd November 1327, Scrope was ordered, with other persons of
distinction, to treat with some Scottish noblemen respecting a
peace,' and he accompanied the King in his invasion of Scotland
about that time, being present at the affair of Stannow Park,
where his pennon and banner were displayed.*
Early in the reign of Edward the Third, Sir Geoffrey Scrope
purchased the manor of M asham in the county of York, which
had belonged to Joan wife of Hugh de Hepham, and daughter
and heiress of John de Wauton;^ and in consequence of his having
succeeded under various entails and conveyances to the manor of
Eccleshall^ in the same county, and to great part of the other
* Ibid, pp.144, 145. '' Avoit graunt pris et portoit graund nom pour son fai
a eel tornament."
' Dugdale's Baronage on the authority of the Patent Rolls 1 Edw.III. p. 1, m.
22, and 2 Edw. III. p. 1, m.27.
» Rot. Scot. 1 Edw. III. m. 1. * Depositions, p. 132, 143.
» Harleian MS. 793, the volumes marked G. fo. 90 b, D.D. fo. 134 b, and £.£.
fo. 24 b, 115 b. Lansdowne MS. 207 C. fo. 664, containing extracts from a MS.
which is cited by Thoroton in his History of Nottinghamshire, consisting of tran-
scripts of charters relating to the lands of the Scropes, which volume was in the
possession of Sir Robert Cotton in 1614, and was transferred in that year to Lord
William Howard.
* In the 5th Edw. III. Sir Robert Eccleshall gave the Manor of Eccleshall
to Joan daughter and heiress of John de Wauton, and to Richard Welles, with
o 2
100 HISTORY OF THE
Sir Geoffrey lands of the Wautons, it has been supposed that he was nearly
SCROPE.
allied to that family.^
Edward the Third went to France in 1329, and Scrope formed
one of his retinue, letters of protection having in consequence been
granted him on the 14th April in that year,^ and he was tempora-
rily superseded as Chief Justice on the 1st May, by Robert de
Malhershorp.' He was present at Amiens in June following, when
his Sovereign did homage to the King of France for the duchy of
Guienne,* immediately after which he was deputed, with others, to
treat with the French monarch for the marriage between his eldest
son and Eleanor, Edward'^s sister.^ In the Parliament which met
• at Westminster in November 1330, Sir Constance de Gerdiston
petitioned the King for restitution of the manor of Gerdiston,
which was then in the possession of Sir Geoffrey le Scrop, who
kept it without any right ^^ par son poer et sa seigneuries ; issi
que ele ne puit, pur ceo q'il est Justice & grant & vers qi nul
home de Ley voill estre a son droit aprocher."" ^
Sir Geoffrey Scrope resumed his office of Chief Justice on the
19th December 1330,^ and opened the Parliament which was
holden at Westminster on Monday next after the Feast of St.
Gregory, in the 6th Edw. III. 1332,® as well as the Parliament
which met at Westminster on the morrow of the Nativity of Our
Lady,» and at York, on Wednesday next before the Feast of Saint
Nicholas ^® following.
remainder to the heirs of her body, — ^failing which, to Sir Geoffrey Scrope and his
heirs^— Hunter's History of Sheffield, p. 197. Scrope died seised of Eccleshall in
1340, and this entail renders it probable that there was a connection between the
fiunilies of Wanton, Eccleshall, and Scrope ; but it cannot be traced.
' In Segar*s Baronage in the College of Arms, Sir Geoffrey is said to have
married Joan daughter and heiress of John de Wauton ; and among the quarter-
ings of Scrope in the Harleian MS. 1529, fo. 70, Scrope of Masham is stated to
bring in the coat of Wauton, Argent, a chevron Sable, with an annulet of the
second in the dexter canton, but it is nearly certain that Sir Geoffrey Scrope did
not marry the lady alluded to.
• Foedera, ii. p* ii. p. 26. ' Dugdale's Origines.
• Fcedera, ii. p» ii. p. 27. * Ibid. p. 27. « Rot. Pari. ii. 39 a.
' Dugdale's Origines. • Rot. Pari. ii. 64 b.
• Rot. Pari. ii. p. 66 b. »• Ibid. p. 67 a.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 101
On the 28th March 1332, being then abroad, he was superseded Sir Geoffriy
in the Chief Justiceship by Richard de Willoughby, but was re-
appointed on his return on the 20th of the ensuing September ;*
and was again superseded, ad interim, for the same reason on the
10th September 1333, but resumed his office on the 16th July
1334. He was a commissioner to attend the Parliament of Ed-
ward Balliol for the ratification of some treaties which had been
agreed upon between the King and Balliol on the 1st February
1334,^ and on the 30th March following he was a commissioner
to treat with certain French nobles concerning a marriage between
John son and heir of Edmund late Earl of Kent, and a daughter
of either of the said noblemen.'
In the same year Sir GeoflPrey obtained a patent whereby he
was released from the obligation of leaving the kingdom to serve
against the King's enemies, excepting at his own pleasure ;* and
one hundred marks were granted him out of the temporal ties
of the Bishop of Durham, in recompense of the horses which he
lost in the wars of France and Scotland.^ He was appointed
a commissioner to treat with Andrew de Moray, Gustos of Scot-
land, on the 16th Nov. 1335,^ and in March 1337 was a commis-
sioner to explain to the barons about to assemble at York for an
expedition into Scotland, the King^s intentions on the subject.^
In April following, Scrope was ordered to treat with the
nobles and others going into Scotland as to the payment of their
wages,^ and was appointed in June in the same year to explain to
the peers assembled at York, what had recently been agreed upon
in the council at Stamford, to arrange with them as to their stay
in Scotland, and about the payment of their wages.^ In August
ensuing he was commanded, with others, to explain to the com-
monalty of the county of York, the oflFers which had been made to
the King of France for avoiding the war with which he threatened
1 Dugdale's Origines. ' Rot. Scot. 8 Edw. III. m. 26.
» FoBdera, ii. p» iii. p. 111. * Rot. Pat 8 Edw. III. m. 3.
* Claus. 8 Edw. III. m. 34. • Rot. Scot. 9 Edw. III. m. 7.
f Rot. Scot. 11 Edw. III. m. 20. * Ibid. m. 19.
9 Ibid. m. 14.
102 HISTORY OF THE
Sir Geoppret England, and to urge them to contribute largely towards the ex-
SCROPE.
penses of the expected campaign.^
On the Ist November following, Sir GeoflPrey Serope was a
commissioner to confer with the clergy of the diocese of York as
to the King'^s intentions with respect to the war with France, and
to request money for his assistance.^ In 1338 Edward despatched
him with the Earl of Northampton and other persons of conse-
quence, to Antwerp, and in July they were followed by his Ma-
jesty in person, with a large army.^ Serope served on that occa-
sion with a retinue of ten knights and forty men-at-arms,^ and in
June and November 1338, as well as in July 1339» he was a com-
missioner to treat for peace with Philip of Valois.* By the title of
" Secretarius noster,'* he was one of the persons who were empow-
ered in the same year to negociate a marriage between the eldest
son of Ix>uis Count of Flanders, and Isabella the King^s daughter;^
and he was often employed on other diplomatic missions, whilst
Edward remained at Antwerp.^
When the King took the field, Serope accompanied the army,
and the following anecdote is related of him. The Cardinal
Bernard de Monte Faventio had used some insulting expressions
to Edward with reference to the strength of the French, and on
the night of the 20th of September, Serope led him into a high
tower, and pointing to the frontiers of France, which appeared one
mass of fire for several leagues, he observed, " My Lord, what
" thinketh your Eminence now ? Doth not this silken line where-
" with you say France is encompassed seem in great danger of
" being cracked, if not broken ?'^ — a sight which struck the Car-
> FcEdera, ii. p* iii. p. 187. » Ibid. p. 196.
5 Fcedera, ii. p* iii. p. 28. On the 26th June, 12 Edw. III. 1338, being then
at his manor of Norland, Sir Geoffrey Serope granted to his two dear friends. Sir
Thomas de S3mythwait and Sir William de Oteryngton, full power to present to any
of his advowsons, he being then about to go beyond the sea, by the command of
the King. Cole's MS. in Brit. Mus. vol. xxiii. fo. 5. from the Register of Simon
Bishop of Ely.
^ Depositions, pages 105. 152. * Foedera, ii. p^ iv. pages 24. 39. 49.
• Foedera, ii. p' iv. p. 25. ' Foedera, ii. p* iv. p. 62.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 103
dinal speechless, and he dropped down apparently lifeless with fear Sir Geoffrey
J ^ ScROPE.
and sorrow.^
At Vironfoss, or, as it is sometimes written, Burenfos, in
Picardy, the French and English armies met in October 1339,
on which occasion Sir GeoflPrey Scrope was present.^ The French
having retired, Edward proceeded to Antwerp, when he appointed
commissioners, of whom Sir Geoflfrey was one, to endeavour to
conclude a peace.^ Scrope returned to England with the expedi-
tion in February 1340, and on the 28th April he was one of the
commissioners to terminate hostilities between England and Scot-
land.^ Edward again invaded France in June following, and
having gained the battle of Scluse,^ he landed in Flanders, and
laid siege to Toumay towards the end of July. Sir Geoffrey is
said by many witnesses to have served at that siege, one of
whom, Sir Ralph Ferrers, thus explains the reason of his being
present. *^ It was the custom in early times, in royal expeditions
made by the King in places where he claimed prerogative, to take
with him his Chief Justice of the King^s Bench to execute his
office as other officers perform theirs, so that Sir Geoffrey Scrope
• ^^ the King^s Chief Justice was there, and the King ordered him
to raise his banner at the said siege ; and he had beneath his
banner, in his retinue, forty lances,^^^ one of whom appears
to have been his eldest son. Sir Henry ScropeJ Having been
created a Banneret, he had 200 marks a year assigned to him for
the support of that dignity by Edward the Third, which grant was
renewed in favour of his said son, who was also a Banneret^
Sir Geoffrey Scrope died in 1340,^ and was buried before the
' Knighton, p. 2574. Stow's Annals, p. 235.
> Depositions, pages 143. 145. 161. 162. 169.
' Patents dated 15 November and 16th December 1339.
* Rot. Scot. 14 Edw. III. m. 10.
^ Thanksgivings were ordered to be offered for this victory on the 28th June
1340. Foedera, ii. p' iv. p. 79.
« Rot. Scot. 14 Edw. III. p. 155 and 156. ' Ibid. p. 156 and 241.
^ See a subsequent page.
» Esch. 14 Edw. III. n© 35. Holinshed says he died at Gant in Flanders
about Midsummer 1340, but the Inquisition does not mention either the day or
place of his decease.
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104
HISTORY OF THE
Sir Geoffrey
SCROPC.
high cross in the church of the Abbey of Coverham, under a large
tomb, on which his efiigy was placed.
As his executors were commanded in 1341 to deliver into the
Exchequer all the Rolls and memoranda which were in his posses-
sion as the King'^s Justice,^ it is evident that he left a will; but it
is not preserved either in the Court of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, or in that of the Archbishop of York.
The Arms borne by Sir Geoffrey le Scrope
were, Azure, a bend Or, differenced by a label
Argent. He married Ivetta, who, according
to the best authorities, Was the daughter of Sir
William Roos of Ingmanthorp ;^ and by her,
who was living in September 1317,^ he had five
sons, Henry, Thomas, William, Stephen, and
Geoffrey ; and three daughters, Beatrix, Con-
stance, and Ivetta. There is reason to believe that Sir Geoffrey
married secondly, in or before 1331, Lora, daughter and coheiress
of Sir Gerard de Fumival of M unden Fumival, and Dinsley Fur-
nival in Hertfordshire, and of Swanland Ferriby and Brathwayte
in Yorkshire, widow of Sir John Ufflete ; for, in the 5th Edw. III.
Sir Gerard Ufflete, Knight, granted two parts of the manor of
Haldenby in Yorkshire to Geoffrey le Scrope and " Lady Lora
my mother," and to the heirs of the said Geoffrey, which he then
held, and which the said Lady Lora held in dower for life, ^^ de
hereditate Dili Galfri ex concessione mea."*^ If, as certainly appears
from this record. Lady Lora was the wife of Sir Geoffrey Scrope
in 1331, it is singular that when Sir Henry Scrope of Bolton
* Deposition, p. 97.
' Pedigree by Glover, Somerset Herald, in the Lansdowne MS. 205. fo. 64, who
however qualifies the assertion by adding ** ut opinor," and by Vincent in the MS.
marked *' Picture of our Lady,'' in the College of Arms. The statement is corrobo-
rated by the following fact : " William de Ros of Ingmanthorp, Knight, by his In-
** denture 16 Edw. II. granted to Geoffrey le Scrop and Ivetta his wife during their
'* lives, the manor of South Buskham, and of Barleton; and afterwards, 17 Edw. II.
** released, which Isabell, wife of William de Ros, also did, and so did Robert de
^ Ros of Ingmanthorp, Knight, to Henry le Scrop, Knight, 25 Edw. III.*' — ^Thoro-
ton's History of Nottinghamshire, p. 346.
< Rot. Cart. 11 Edw. II. fo.60.
FAMILY OF SCnOPE OF MASHAM.
105
ordered the souls of Sir Geoffrey and Ivetta his wife to be prayed |
for in January 1334,' he should not also have mentioned Lora his
second wife.
1. SIR HENRY SCROPE, eldest son of Sir Geoffrey
Scrope, will be afterwards outiced.
2. Sir Thomas Scropb, who, from the crescents in his arms, s
and the notice of him in the 18th Edw. II. 1322, in the chartulary
of the Abbey of Whalley,- appears to have been the second son of
Sir Geoffrey Scrope. He died unmarried in the lifetime of his
father, and nothing more is known of him
than that he was buried near Sir Geoffrey,
in the Abbey of Coverham ; and that an
escutcheon of his Arms, which were, Azure,
on a bend Gr three crescents of the first,
over all a label Argent, was placed on his
tomb.*
3. Sir William Sceope, a younger son of Sir Geoffrey Scrope, S:
was a most distinguished soldier, and many of the Deponents bore
ample testimony to his services and valour. So numerous were
the battles and expeditions in which he was present, that he
almost realized Chaucer's beau ideal of a Knight i for,
" Fro the time thai he &rale began
To riden out he loved chevalne,
Troulhe and hoDour, fredom and counesie.
Fui worthy was he in his lordea werre,
And llierlo hadde he riddeu, no man ferre
As well in Crialendom as in Hethenesae,
And ever honoured Tor his worlhinesse.
106 HISTORY OF THE
Sir William It may be conjectured that Sir William was born about 1325, but
nothing is known of him until the 24th June 1340, when he was at
the sea-fight of Scluse.^ He accompanied the King in his inva^
sion of France in July 1346,^ and shared the laurels of the vie-
•
tory of Cressy in August following.' In October in that year, he
was at the battle of Durham,^ immediately after which he pro-
ceeded to the siege of Calais,^ where he particularly signalized
himself by his bravery in preventing supplies from being thrown
into the town at the Water-gate ; of which deed. Sir William
Moigne, who was an eye-witness, says, all the English spoke most
honourably.®
On the 29th August 1350, Scrope was in the naval battle gain-
ed by the King over the Spaniards near Winchelsea ; "^ and on the
war being declared with France in 1355, he went into Gascony
with the Black Prince, served under him before Narbonne and Car-
cason,^ and partook of the honours of Poictiers on the 19th De-
cember 1356.0 He was again in France in 1359 and 1360, in the
retinue of the Prince of Wales, when Edward the Third appeared
before Paris.^^ Peace being concluded with that country in May
1360, Sir William Scrope sought to display his valour under the
King of Cyprus against the Infidels ; and about 1364 he was in the
retinue of the Earl of Hereford at Satillie when a truce was con-
cluded between the King of Cyprus and the Lord of Satillie.^^ He
soon afterwards returned to England, and in the army of John of
Oant, marched from Calais to Bordeaux in 1366, and was at the
rescue of Mortein.^ Having accompanied the Black Prince into
Spain,^' he was present at the battle of Najara on the 3rd of April
1367;^^ but his glorious career terminated in that expedition, as he
* Depositions, pages 145. 241. 242. • Ibid. p. 145.
» Ibid, pages 165. 185. 201. 204. 210. * Ibid. p. 204.
* Ibid. p. 125. 127. 145. 165. 185. • Ibid. p. 165.
^ Ibid. p. 237. • Ibid. p. 217.
* Ibid. p. 217, 218. According to one of the Deponents, p. 185, Scrope was
at the recapture of Berwick in January 1356; but if he accompanied the Black
Prince to Gascony in the autumn of 1355, it is scarcely possible he could have
been in Scotland in the January following. *^ Depositions, pages 192. 217. 242.
" lbid.p.l66. »*Ibid.p.l99. '* Ibid. p. 165. 185. »* Ibid. p. 192.217,242.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 107
died shortly afterwards in the " Vaal de Zorie'' in Spain,^ where Sib William
SCROPI.
the Black Prince remained nearly a month,^ probably of the dis-
ease which made frightful havock in the English army.' Sir
William Scrope, though a veteran soldier, could not have been
much more than forty years of age at his death ; and his family
may have derived consolation at his premature loss from the
reflection of the great contemporary poet, that — -
** -—Certainly a man hath most honour
To dien in his excellence and flour,
Whan he is siker of his goode name ;
Than hath he don his frend ne him no shamd ;
And glader ought his frend ben of his deth.
Whan with honour is yolden up his breth,
}■£ Than whan his name appalled is for age,
^ For all foryetten is his yassallage ;
Than is it beftt, as for a worthy fame,
"^Rien whan a man is best of name/'
An anecdote related of Sir William by John Chamels, Esq.
in 1386, shows the jealousy that then prevailed with respect
to armorial ensigns. '^ Being in garrison during the old wars
^^ in a castle called Quarranteau, he, with forty of his com-
rades, made a chivauch^e to the Castle of Timbres higher up
the country, designing to take any other castle, or to perform
some piece of service in their route. Among them was Sir
William Scrope, brother, he believed, of Sir Henry Scrope;
and finding the garrison of Genevile without the town, and in
^^ disorder, Chamels and his comrades attacked them and made
> Depositions, page 185.
* Froissart calls it the Val de Foriei which his able editor, Mons. Buchon, con-
siders was the town of Soria in Old Castile, near the source of the river Douro. —
Tome iy. p. 430.
* Froissart par Buchon, iv. 429. Walsingfaam, p. 117. Knyghton, col. 2629.
According to the deposition of Sir Alexander Goldyngham, '' Sir William Scrope,
" ton of Sir Henry, was armed in Lombardy, in the retinue of the Earl of Hereford
'* at the taking of Nofe, [probably Novi] and afterwards passed the great sea with
« the said Earl, and there died.'' — Deposition, p. 70. It is certain that Goldyng-
ham was mistaken in attributing these facts to a «on of Henry first Lord Scrope
of Masham ; and it is most probable that the individual mentioned in the text was
the person alluded to.
p2
108
HISTORY OF THE
Sir William
SCBOPE.
Sir Stbphbn
SCROPB.
(4
44
44
44
** about forty of them prisoners. A knight called Sir Philip de
la Moustre became prisoner to Chamels ; and because he was
armed in the entire arms of Sir William Scrope, he wished to
kill him. Chamels therefore made his prisoner divest him-
self of his arms, or Scrope would certainly have put him to
" death.'' ^
It was probably this Sir William Scrope who, according to
the pedigrees of Neville, married Maud daughter of John Lord
Neville of Raby, K. G.^, by his first wife, Maud daughter of
Henry Lord Percy, and sister of Ralph first
Earl of Westmoreland; but as no children of
this match are any where mentioned, he proba-
bly died issueless. His Arms were, Azure, a
bend Or, differenced by a label Ermine,^ though
one of the Deponents says the label was gobonne
Argent and Gules.*
4. Sir Stephen Scrope, fourth son of Sir Geoffrey Scrope of
Masham, like his elder brothers, commenced his military career at
a very early age, and fought at the battle of Cressy in August
1346.^ He was at the memorable siege of Calais from September
in that year to August 1347 ; ^ and in January 1356 served at
the recapture of Berwick."^ Having accompanied the expedition
into France under the King in 1359» he was before Paris in
the spring of the ensuing year.® By deed, dated at Leyburn, 6th
April, 33 Edw. III. 1359, Sir Stephen granted to John Boteler and
his heirs, all the lands and tenements in the town of Leyburn and
Esthawkeswell, which belonged to John son of Elias de Leyburn,
* Deposition, p. 211, 212.
• Lord Neville's Will, dated 31 August 1386, contains the following bequest :
" Item Domine Matilde Lescrop filie mee xij discos, xij saucers argenteos, et j scy-
" phum deauratum coopertum/' — Hutchinson's History of Durham, vol.iii. p. 265.
» Ibid, pages 165. 192. 217, 218. 241, 242. * Ibid. p. 210.
' Depositions, p. 127. 145. It would seem from the deposition of William Hesil-
rigg, Esq. p. 127, that this Sir Stephen had previously served in Scotland; but his
age renders it very unlikely. * Ibid, p. 145. "^ Ibid. p. 146.
' Ibid. p. 242. A Sir Stephen Scrope was at the battle of Najara in April
1367, but that person appears to have been Stephen, second Lord Scrope of
Masham, the nephew of the individual mentioned in the text.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 109
and of which Joan Styrop, cousin and heir of the said John Sm
Levburn, had enfeoffed him ; and by another deed, dated on Sun-
day after the Feast of Saint Lawrence, 11th August 1359, it
appears thai Adam de Whitage, and John Boteler and Agnes his
wife, cousins and heirs of Humphrey Stordy, were entitled to the
reversion of lands in Thornton, Stertwhayt and Danby super Yore,
which were then held by Stephen le Scrope, after the death of
himself, and of Isabella his wife and their issue.' All which is
known of him subsequently to that period is, that he left a
daughter and sole heiress, Joan Scrope, who was twice married : first
to William de Perl, by whom she had two daughters ; Isabella,
born about 1387, the wife of Robert Conyers of Sockbourn, and
Margaret, born about 1397, who married William Kdlington.^
Both these daughters were living 6 Hen. VI. 1427, the elder being
then above forty, and the younger upwards of thirty years of age.'
The said Joan Scrope married secondly Sir Roger Swyllington,
Knight, to whom she was second wife,* and died 20th September
1427. Sir Roger Swyllington had two sons, John and Robert,^
who both died without issue; and two daughters. Margaret,'* the
wife of Sir John Gray of Ingelby, in Lincolnshire, Knight, and
Elizabeth, who married Roger Aske. and had a son named Conan
Aske, who was one of the Deponents in 1386;^ but according to
the Inquisition taken after the decease of John Swyllington, son
of Sir Roger, in the 8th Hen. V. it seems that the said John
' Ori^ical Deeds among the archives at Bolton Hall
• See Surlees' History of Durham, iii. 250.
" Esch. 6th Hen. VI. n" 53. ITie lands or which Joan Scrope died seised,
were granted to her by Sir Stephen her fatlier, whose heir she was, and by her uncle
Henry tint Lord Scrope of Mash am.
' Roger Swyllington, and Joan his wife, are mentioned in the Will of his fmher,
Sir Robert Swyllin^on, Knight, in 1391. Testamema Vctusta, i. 128.
• These children appear lo be the person» nienlioned in the Will of Margaret
lady Swyllington in U18.— Testamenta Vetusta, i. 19T. Sir Roger Swyllington
died 6lh Hen. V. In his Will he mentioned his wife Joan, his son John, his daugh-
ters Margai-et and Grace, and Joan the wife of his son John, Lord Willoughby of
Eiesby,.and Lord ViU Hugh, His son Robert was found lo be his heir, and then
of Iheageof Iwentj-lwo. Testamenu Vetusta, i. 19,^. Hsch. 6th Hen. V. n''46.
• Esch. 6lh Hen. VI. n" 52.
\
k
110
HISTORY OF THE
Sib Stephen
SCBOPB.
Gbofpbbt
Scbofb,Clebe.
and Margaret were by a former wife, and that
Robert was the son of Sir Roger by Joan
Scrope.
The Arms of Sir Stephen Scrope were those
of bis family,^ but the label was probably dif-
ferenced.
6. Oboffrsy Scrope, another of the younger sons of Sir Geof-
frey Scrope, was a priest The dates render it extremely probable
that he was the Clerk who is thus alluded to in the Deposition of
Sir John Grildesburgh : the time referred to must have been
about the year 1348. " When Oildesburgh was twelve years of
'* age, and was at school at Oxford, he saw there the commence-
" ment of a Clerk bearing the name of Scrope, and there were
^^ trumpeters carrjdng on their trumpets penoncils of the said arms,
" * Azure, a bend Or ;' and the Clerks asked * what arms were
" on the trumpets ?' and it was said * they were the arms of
** Scrope;**
'' On every trump hanging a brode bannere
Of fine tartarium, full richly bete." '
On the 3rd November 1340, he was admitted to the prebend of
Apesthorp by proxy, and was Rector of Bowden Magna in Lei-
cestershire in 1366, but resigned that church in 1378.^ He was
subsequently appointed Prebendary of Hather in Lincolnshire ; and
was a Canon of the church of St. Mary of Lincoln, in the 6th
Ric. 11.^ Oeoffirey Scrope died early in 1388-9, and his Will was
proved on the 11th April in that year. In one of the windows
' Seal attached to a deed of 6th April 1359. ' Deposition, p. 218.
' Chaucer's " Floure and the LesSe," line 211.
* Nichols' Leicestershire, ii. p'ii. p. 475. In a certificate presented by Bishop
Bokyngham to Archbishop Langham, 13 kal. Dec. 1366, containing the names of
those who held pluralities within the diocese of Lincoln, is the following passage :
** Item Sept. 27, 1366, Magister Galfridus Scrope natus quondam nobilis viri domiui
Galfridi de Scrope militis LL.B. exhibuit et nominavit beneficia sua infrascripta :
Prebendam de Hayder cum Walton in ecclesia Lincoln', ubi residet, &c. Item
ecclesiam parochialem de Bouden nostre dioc' &c. Item prebendam de Apes-
thorpe in ecclesia Ebor' &c. Item capellam sive ecclesiam de Westonton in dioc'
Ebor'."— Regist. Langham, f. 27 b. Ibid. * Harleian MS. 6829. f. 282.
i
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM.
Ill
of the church of the Prebend of Hather are his '
Arms, Azure, a bend Or, with a label of three
points, the first and tbird point of which are
Gules, and the centre one Argent,' and this in-
scription :
if^raU pro a't'a ftalfr'i It *trop l^xtbtvCOatii ijujufl
£c(l ie tt pro a't'a Scatdcig UtoutrtU «ororid rjud.
He was aJso commemorated by the following epitaph in Lincoln
Cathedral :
6, dtroop ILtgieta jaiit ific iab inarinort tiita,
(Suatn quad! 13ali^ta Utit mord flibiUn itfta;
ffdix 6nltntlui E.ictid tt ^iniint iiVaS,
^n tibi nunc nitlus ■■
C^ridto Scbotud, runctid coguomint notud,
(£t Icmttr matrix futt in lacf)rt)mtil [)omo tatitd :
So^t € tn ac mtlU Siniul octogitd ruit iUt,
Sormit tranquillt, Incud est lincolrta bfllt. '
7. Beatrix, a daughter of Sir Geoffrey Scrope, married be-
fore June 1320, Sir Andrew Lutterell of Imham, in Lincolnshire,
Knight.3
8. Constance, another daughter of Sir Geoffrey, married before
June 1320, Sir Geoffrey Lutterell, brother of the above-mentioned
Sir Andrew.
9. IvETTA, a third daughter of Sir Geoffrey Scrope, was the wife
of John de Hothom, son of John de Hothom, and grandaoD of
' Harleian MS. 6829. f. 2B2. * Nichols" Leicestershire, toI. ii. 477.
' " Geoffrey Lullerell, by deed dated at Irnhani in Liocolnslure, the Rrst Sunday
after Trinity a" I8lh Edw. II. settled the manor of Gamelslon and Bruggford
with the adTowson of the church of Bniggford, with b!I his lands and lenemeula
in Basingfield, and other places which the Lady Joan wife of Sir Itobert Lullercll
held for her life, on Guy Lutterell, during the life of the said Geoffrey, afterward»
lo Andrew son of the said Geoffrey, and lo Beatrice his wife, daughter of Geoflrey
Scrope, and the heirs of their bodies, for want of which to Geoffrey brother of
Andrew, und to Constance his wife, sister of the said Beatrice, and their heirs,
8tc."— Thorolon's History of Nottinghamshire, p. 63. Ex lib. Chart. transcripL
de terris Scropeonim in Bibl. Cotton, fo, 3. a° 1609. In manibus dominj Will
Howard, in 1615.
k
112 HISTORY OF THE
Sir Peter de Hothom, Knight. He died without issue before
1356;^ and in that year her brother Sir Henry Scrope purchased
of her the manor of Fif hede. * .
Henry «R8T giR HENRY SCROPE, son and heir of Sir Geoffrey Scrope
Lord Scropb. '' '
of Masham, was bom about 1315, and was twenty-five years of
age at the death of his father in 1340.^ As the first Baron of the
house of Scrope of Masham, he claims particular attention ; more
especially as his distinguished services in the field, and on other
occasions, fully entitled him to the dignity which he attained.
He commenced his career in arms when very young, and
served in the retinue of the Earl of Northampton in the expe-
dition into Scotland in 1333, under whose banner he was present
at the " chivauchee'*' by torchlight from Lochmaban to Peebles ;♦
and in May in that year was at the siege of Berwick,* which was
undertaken by Edward the Third in person. On that occasion he
received the honour of Knighthood,^ and on the 19th July follow-
ing. Sir Henry was at the battle of Halidon Hill^ when Berwick sur-
rendered. Edward having again invaded Scotland in July 1335,
Scrope accompanied him, and was present at the siege of Dunbar^
from January to August 1336. In the autumn and winter of 1339
he was with the King in Flanders,^ served at the sea-fight near
Scluse on the 24th June 1340, in the retinue of the Earl of Nor-
thampton,^® and was present during the siege of Tournay in July fol-
lowing.^^ Sir Henry Scrope succeeded his father in the autumn of
1340, and paid a fine to the King in 1341 for the offence which Sir
Geoffrey had committed, by purchasing of John Duke of Brittany,
without the King's licence, the manor of Danby Wysk, which was
holden of the crown in capite." On the 26th February 1342, he
was summoned to attend a Council at Westminster,^' and in 1343
was in the army which landed in Brittany. He was at the siege
» Rot. Claus. 29 Edw. III. « Rot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 228.
» Esch. 14 Edw. III. n* 35.
« Depositions, p. 124. 133. ^ Ibid, pages 133. 146. 151, 152. 240.
• Ibid, pages 152. 240. 7 Ibid. p. 240. » Ibid. p. 213.
» Ibid. p. 241. »• Ibid, pages 126. 145. 203. " Ibid, pages 241. 243.
*• Rot. Orig. vol. ii. p. 50. ** Appendix to the First Peerage Report.
FAMILY OF SCHOPE OF MASflAM.
of Vannea in October in that year,' and shortly afterwards was at Henuv nn
the siege of Morlaix." In May 1344 he was a Commissioner of
array for the North Riding of Yorkshire to prepare against an
invasion by the Scotch ^' and in August following was ordered
to array four men-at-arms and two hundred and sixty archers in
Richmondshire to repulse them.* One of the Deponents, John
Ryther, Esquire, stated, that whilst Sir Ralph Ufford was
" Gardein" in Ireland, he had with him numerous Knights and
Esquires of the county of Chester, and many noble archers, and
that Sir Henry Scrope then served with his banner and in his
coat armour against the Irish." According to Dugdale, this oc-
curred in tlie 20th Edw. III. 1346;« but as Ufford was Justice of
Ireland and returned from that country in 1344,' the circumstance
probably happened before that year.
Edward the Third went to Scluse in July 1345, with the view
of rendering the Black Prince Sovereign of Flanders, about which
time the celebrated James de Anartfeld, or, as one of the Depo-
nents calls him, Jacob Vanartfeld," was murdered by his fellow
citizens.^ Sir Henry Scrope served in that expedition ; and hav-
ing accompanied the army to France in July 1346, was at the
victory of Cressy on the 26th August in that year,'" at which time
he must have been a Banneret, as his banner is said to have been
displayed on the occasion. He was present at the battle of Dur-
ham on the 17th October 1346," when his banner was borne in the
van-guard ;'- and was sent immediately afterwards to the siege of
Calais, where he served until its surrender in August 1347," in
the retinue of the Earl of Northampton.'*
Sir Henry Scrope returned to England soon after the surren-
der of Calais, and in December 1349 was one of the Knights who
attended Edward in his romantic attempt to defeat a stratagem
which the French had formed with the view of obtaining possession
' Deposilionj, p. U5. 303. 'Ibid.p.l27. = RoLScoc.lBEd.III.'m. 9.
' Rot. Scoc. 18 Edw. III. m.6. ' Depos.p. t45, 146. ' Baronage, ii. 49.
' Cileod. Rot. Pal. p. 140, 147 b. 14B. Ret. Pari. ii. 211 b.
' Deposition, p. a03. ' Froissart par Buchon, ii. 251. el seq.
'0 Deposilionsi.p. 127.190.203. 235. " Ibid. p. 204. '■ Ibid. p. 215.
" Ibid. p. 105. 120. 127. 145. 190. 203. 235. " Ibid. p. 104. 112.
VOL tl. Q
114 HISTORY OF THE
HsNRT FIRST of that towii, whcii the King and the Black Prince condescended to
Lord Scrope.
serve under the banner of Sir Walter Manny. The French were
defeated, and Sir Geoffrey Charny, by whom the attack was com-
manded, was made prisoner.^ On the 29th August 1350, Scrope
was at the sea-fight with the Spaniards near Winchelsea, generally
called the battle of Espagnols sur Mere ;^ and on the 25th Novem-
ber he received his first writ of summons to Parliament as a Baron .^
In March 1351 he was a Commissioner to treat with the Scotch at
Hextildesham in Northumberland respecting the release of David
Bruce, and for a peace with Scotland,^ and was appointed to per-
form similar duties in October 1353* and June 1354.^ On the
28th August 1354, by the style of " Henry de Scrope Lord of
Clifton,'' he was one of the peers who consented to ambassadors
being sent to the Pope, his Holiness having been constituted Arbi-
trator between the Kings of England and France ; ^ and was in
the retinue of the Earl of Northampton in November 1355, when
Edward the Third landed at Calais and devastated the country as
far as Hesdin.® Lord Scrope was at the siege of Berwick in
January 1357,^ after which, it appears, that the King marched to
Edinburgh and took the castle, on which occasion Scrope was again
in the retinue of the Earl of Northampton.^^ In October follow-
ing, he attended a conference with the Scotch nobles at Newcastle
respecting the release of Bruce, with the object of effecting a
peace ; ^^ and on the 3rd October 1357, he was one of the Commis-
sioners by whom the articles for the release of Bruce were settled
at Berwick-upon-Tweed."
In October 1359» France was invaded by the King in person ;
and the English army appeared before Paris in April follow-
ing. During the whole of that expedition, which terminated with
the peace of Bretigny in Chartres early in May 1360, Lord Scrope
served as a Banneret in the retinue of John of Gant, then Earl of
* Deposition, p. 203. Froissart par Buchon, ii. 497. • Depos. p. 126. 190.
* Appendix to the First Peerage Report. * Rot. Scoc. 25 Edw. III. m. 5.
* Rot. Scoc. 27 Edw. III. m. 2. « Ibid. 28 Edw. III. m. 6.
^ Fcedera, iii. p* i. p. 101. ® Depos. p. 205. Froissart, iii. 447, 448.
» Depositions, p.l46. 151. »<> Ibid. p. 110. '»Rot.Scoc.28Edw.III.m.4.
" Rot. Scoc. 31 Edw. III. m. 2. in dorso, and m. 6.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM.
Richmond,' and was at Retlers when Geoffrey Chaucer was taken
prisoner by the French.*
The army having returned to England, Scrope was soon after-
wards appointed an Ambassador to negociate a peace with Scot-
land,' His reputation as a soldier was at that time fully esta-
blished, and at the commentement of the ensuing year he was
selected to iill the important situation of Governor of Guisnes and
Calais, or as he was sometimes termed, "Governor of Picardy."*
The original indenture with the King on this occasion is still
extant. It was dated at Westminster on the 18th February 35
Edw. III. 1361, and he thereby agreed to undertake for one year
the government of the Lordship of Merk, Calais, and all the
county of Guisnes, having in his retinue one bachelor, eight men-
at-arms, and ten archers on horseback. He was to receive for
himself and his followers for the year 40O/. viz. 100/. per ijuarter,
each quarter being paid in advance. During the aforesaid term he
was also to be Captain of the Castle of Guisnes, and to provide for
the safeguard thereof, having therein, besides the said retinue, five
men-at-arms, and five foot-archers, who were to be paid by the
King. Lord Scrope was not to be constrained to undertake the
custody of any other castle within the said Lordship, or " coun-
tee," or to answer to the King in the event of their being taken,
but he was to render every assistance in his power to the Captains
of them : nor was he to be compelled to hold the said office after
the expiration of the year; and reasonable allowance was to be
made for the passage and repassage of himself and his retinue.'
This agreement was renewed on the 18th of February 1362,^ and
probably in each succeeding year whilst he continued Governor of
Guisnes, which appointment he held as late as 1367.' His duties
did not however keep him constantly out of the kingdom, for he
was a Trier of Petitions in Parliament in 1362, 1363, and 1364.«
' Deposilions,p8gesl06. 113. 117. 126. 134.137.146.151.153.163. 166.169.
■174.176.184.186.188.189.202,204.205.313.215.216.218,235.237.211.343.543.
■ Chaucer's DeposiiioD, p. 178. ' Rot, Scoc, 34 Edw. III. m. 3.
' Deposiliou, p. 122. ' Harleiao Charters, 56 A. 24. ^lbid. 56 A. 21.
' Ftrdera, iii. p' ii. p. 1 30. " Hot. Pari. ii. 266 b. 273 b. 283 b.
Q y
116 HISTORY OF THE
HiNBY FIRST Lord Scrope was one of the Ambassadors to coDclude a treaty
Lord Scropi- , ^ "^ , ^^
of alliance with the Count of Flanders in February 13m ; ^ and on
the 20th July 1364, he and the Earl of Salisbury were sdected to
arrange a contract of marriage between Eldmund of Langley the
King^s son, and Margaret Duchess of Burgundy the Count's
daughter, on which occasion he was described as ^^ Henri le Scrop
Gouvemeur de noz Seignuries de Calays et de Guynes.^ '
War having been declared with France about June 1369, the
Duke of Lancaster landed at Calais with an immense army in
August following, and Lord Scrope was one of the Bannerets in
his retinue. He is stated to have been present at Balingham Hill
in that month,^ and after the army had returned to Calais, it
marched into the Pais de Caux.^ The Duke arrived at Calais
on the 18th of November, and embarked for England, but Lord
Scrope remained as Captain of that place. The indenture with
the Duke of Lancaster by which he undertook the office of Captain
of the town and castle of Calais, is dated on the 26th of November
1369. He was to support fifty men-at^ums and fifty archers,
with himself as Banneret taking for his wages four shillings a day,
and for each of the forty-one esquires, men-at-arms, twelve pence,
and for each of the fifty archers six pence a day. One of the most
efficient Knights of his retinue was always to remain in the castle
for him, and in his name, with fourteen men-at-arms and twenty
archers. The other thirty-five men-at-arms and thirty archers of
his retinue were to be quartered as might appear to him most
advantageous for the safety of the town and castle, besides eighty
men-at^ums and two hundred archers, and the retinues of the
Mayor and Aldermen being in the garrison at the King^s charge *
it was farther stipulated that he and the treasurer of Calais were to
inspect the garrisons, castles, and other fortresses in the adjoining
country. This agreement was to endure until the next ensuing
feast of Pentecost ; and on the 23rd of November he assumed the
charge of the town and castle.^
» FoBdera,iii.p«ii.p.53. « Ibid. p. 89. ' Depos. p. 113. 126.166. 176.202.
« Depositions, pages 113. 126. 168. 174. 176. 195. 202. 220. 242.
* Foedera, iii. p' ii. p. 164.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 117
In July 1370, Lord Scrope was Warden of the marches in Hbnry first
IjOrd Scrope
Northumberland,^ and about that time was appointed Steward of
the King^s household, an office of considerable importance. Bj
that title he is recorded to have been present in the King^s private
Chamber on the Queen^s Bridge near the River Thames, called
the " Red-chamber," on the 14th March 1371, when the Bishop
of Winchester surrendered the great seal.* All that is known of
Lord Scrope in the following year, is, that in February he was
ordered to make an inquiry respecting the cargoes of two Scotch
vessels which had been wrecked on the coast of Northumber-
land, and to cause restitution thereof to the owners upon payment
of salvage.^ In 1373 he was a Commissioner to punish offenders
against the truce between England and Scotland,^ and. was a Trier
of Petitions, as well as on a Committee to confer with the Com-
mons, in the Parliament which met at Westminster on the 2nd
of November, being the morrow of the feast of Saint Edmond.^
Lord Scrope was appointed a Commissioner to decide a dispute
between Henry Lord Percy and William Earl Douglas, respecting
the forest of Jed worth in 1374;^ and in January 1375 he was again
a Commissioner for the punishment of infractions of the truce
with Scotland J By letters patent, dated 30 October, 48 Edw. III.
1374, he obtained a confirmation of a grant made to his father of
200 marks per annum to support the rank of a Banneret, in consi-
deration of his own services in England, France, and Scotland.^
1 Rot. Scoc. 44 £dw. III. m. 4.
3 Foedera, iii. pt ii. p. 181. ' Rot. Scoc. 46 Edw. III. m. 5.
< Rot. Scoc. 47 Edw. III. m. 5. and m. 3. * Rot Pari. ii. 316 b. 317 a.
« Rot. Scoc. 48 Edw. III. m. 2. ' Rot. Scoc. 49 Edw. III. m. 5.
^ Edwardus Dei gratia Rex Anglie et Francie et Dominus Hibernie Thesaurario
et Camerario suo salutem. Cum oos Duper pro bono et gratuito servitio quod Gal-
fridus Lescrope tarn domino Edwardo nuper regi Anglie quam nobis deserriendo
impendit, ac pro statu Banereti quam de precepto nostro suscepit manutenendo,
dederimus et concesserimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris prefato Galfrido ducen-
tas marcas percipiend. singulis annis sibi et heredibus suis ad scaccarium nostrum
et beredum nostronim ad festa Pasche et Sancti Michaelis per equales portiones
quousque nos vel heredes nostri eidem Galfrido vel heredibus suis de duceutis
mercatis terre et redditus per annum infra dictum regnum nostrum habendo sibi et
heredibus suis in loco sive locis congruis fecerimus provjderi ; ac postmodum xx
118 HISTORY OF THE
Henby FIRST ^ parliament assembled at Westminster on Monday after the
Lord Scrope. * -^
feast of Saint Gregory, 60 Edw. III. 13th March 1376, in which
Scrope was on a Committee to confer with the Commons, and was
a Trier of Petitions.* To this Parliament the Commonalty of the
county of Cumberland petitioned that Lord Scrope and five other
Peers might be examined respecting the dilapidated state of the walls
and fortifications of the city of Carlisle.^ In 1377 he was a Trier of
Petitions in Parliament,^ and on the 10th June was reappointed a
Commissioner for the maintenance of the truce with Scotland.^
Edward III. died in June 1377, when Scrope must have been
above sixty-two years old ; and his advanced age explains why so
little is recorded of him during the sixteen following years. In
the Parliament which met in 1st Ric. II. 1377, nine persons were
chosen to form the King's council, one of whom was Lord Scrope,*
and he was present in the expedition which Lancaster commanded
in Scotland in 1383, as well as in the one under Richard II. in
August 1385.^ He was regularly summoned to Parliament until
the 7th September, 15 Ric. II. 1391,^ and was a Trier of Petitions
die NoTembris anno regni nostri Anglie tricessimo sexto [1362] nos ad grata et
utilia obsequia nobis per dilectum et fidelem nostrum Henricum Lescrop, filium et
heredem predicti Galfridi, nobis in diversis partibus tarn in Anglia quam in Francia
et Scotia multipliciter impensa, et ad locum magnum quern idem Henricus nobis
hactenus tenuit et indies tenet considerationem habentes, ac volentes ipsum Hen-
ricimi proinde tam contemplacione dicti patris sui quam persone sue proprie re-
spicere gloriosi, voluerimus donationem et concessionem predictas prefato Galfrido
et heredibus suis per nos sic factas in suo robore permanere, et ex abundanti con-
cessimus prefato Henrico quod ipse et heredes sui habeant et percipiant dictas
ducentas marcas exnunc singulis annis ad scaccarium nostrum et heredum nos-
trorum ad dicta festa Pasche et Sancti Michaelis per equales portiones quousque
nos vel heredes nostri eidem Henrico vel heredibus suis de ducentis mercatis terre
et redditus per annum sibi et heredibus suis infra dictum regnum nostrum in loco
sive in locis competentibus fecerimus provideri, prout in Uteris uostris patentibus
inde confectis plenius continetur: Vobis mandamus quod eidem Henrico centum
marcas inde pro termino Sancti Michaelis proximo preterito de Thesaurario nostro
soluatis juxta tenorem literarum nostrarum patentium. Teste me ipso apud West-
monasterium xx die Octobris anno regni nostri Anglie xlviii regni vero nostri Fran-
cie XXXV [1374.] From the Harleian MS. 5019 f. 91 b.
» Rot. Pari. ii. p. 322 a. » Ibid. p. 345 b. » Ibid. p. 363 b.
* Rot. Scoc. 31 Edw. Ill . m. 2. * Rot. Pari. iii. p. 5 a. 6 b. • Depos. p. 1 74.
^ Appendix to the First Peerage Report.
FAMILY OF SCEOPE OF MASHAM.
119
in October 2 Ric. II. 1378,' and November 6 Ric. II. 1381.* ^
After that period, he appears to have withdrawn from public life,
and to have passed the remainder of hia days in retirement.
Henry Lord Scrope died on the Slat of July, 15 Ric. II. 1391,'
at which time he must have attained his seventy-sixth year. No
less than half a century of his life was passed in the service of liis
country, chiefly in the field, but occasionally in diplomatic situa-
tions. In the tournament he is said to have been eminently con-
spicuous ; and Sir Thomas Roos of Kendal, one of his contem-
poraries, relates, that at a tournament held at Dunstaple, in the
presence of Edward the Third and most of the great personages of
the realm, he acquitted himself with such skill as to gain the
marked applause of the King.* Every trace of his private cha-
racter is lost, but his public career was full of honour.
It is remarkable that the family name of his wife has not been
discovered, and all which is known of her is, that she was called
Joan.^ By her. Lord Scrope had five sons, 1. Qbopfrey. 2.
STEPHEN. 3. Richard. 4. Hbnby. 5. John ; and two daughters,
Joan and Isabblu.
Lord Scrope's Arms, during the
lifetime of his father, were, Azure,
^ a bend Or, difier-
— ^- enced by a label
N I l\ 1 1 golwinfe Argent
^^ J^ and Gules;** but
\^ ^ in 1340 he assum-
\ ed the distinction
of his house, name-
ly, a label Argent.'
The annexed impression of his seal
is copied from a deed dated at Lon-
' Rot Pari iii. p. 34 a.
•Hot. Pail. iii. p. »9 a. ' Esch. leRicILnoSS. * Deposition, p. 133.
' Lord Scrope held the manor of Castelcarlton in lincoliubiie jointly with Joan
his wife. Cotton. MS. Claudius C. x. ; Glover describes her thus, " Johanna uxor
ejus full hteres." — Lansdowne MS. 305 .
• Deposition, p. 240. ' Depositions, paaiini.
120 HISTORY OF THE
don OD the 20th February, 29 Edw. III. 1355, and now preserved
in the British Museum. ^ As a Pennon of his Arms is introduced
to the left of the shield, the seal was probably engraved before he
attained the rank of Banneret.
Sir Geoffrey Sm Geoffrey Scrope, the eldest, has been hitherto considered
SCROPS.
the second son of Henry Lord Scrope, but the error is manifest
from the notices of him by the Deponents in 1386. He was appa-
rently bom about 1342, and having accompanied the army under
John Duke of Lancaster into Brittany in the autumn of 1356, he
served at the siege of Rennes from December in that year to July
1357.* In November 1359 he was in the expedition made into
France by Edward the Third ; and when the English approached
Paris in May following, Scrope was in the retinue of the Duke
of Lancaster.' It seems, from the Deposition of Thomas Hornby,
Esquire, who was present at the ceremony, that he was knighted
whilst the army were before the French capital in April 1360.*
The peace of Chartres, in May following, blighted the ambitious
prospects of the young English warriors, who, stimulated by the
recollection of Cressy and Poictiers, anticipated a rich harvest of
laurels in France. Several Knights were therefore induced to
seek them in other fields, and Sir Geoffrey Scrope, with many of
his countrymen, went to Prussia,* with the intention of serving
against the Infidels of Lithuania. They proceeded into that country
in 1362, when siege was laid to the Castle of Piskre, and Sir Oeofirey
Scrope fell during the assault of that fortress.^ His body, being
brought back into Prussia, was buried in the cathedral of Konigs-
berg, and John Ryther, Esq. who was his comrade on the occasion,
as well as Sir Thomas Boynton, attended his funeral.^ Kyther
1 Harleian Charter 53 H. 34.
« Depositions, p. 146. 188. 237. » Ibid. p. 146. 188. 189. 237.
♦ Ibid. p. 237. * Ibid. p. 146. 188.
* Ibid. p. 146. This expedition is noticed in '^ Historia Lituanae/' 4to.
i. 329, where the capture of Pistena is mentioned. Query if it be the place called
Piskre in the deposition of John Ryther, Esq,
^ Depositions, pages 146. 149.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAJW.
121
caused Scrope's Arms to be painted in the window; and they ^" "j^"
were also engraved on a table before the aitar of that church in
memory of him.'
Sir Geoffrey Scrope is said- to have married Eleanor daughter
of Ralph Lord Neville by Alice daughter of
Hugh Lord Audley, but had no issue ; and
after his death she took the veil in, and became
Abbess of, the Minories of London. He used
the same distinction in his Arms as his father
had done in the lifetime of his grandfather,
namely, a label gobonne, Argent and Oulcs.^
3. RICHARD SCROPE, Archbishop of Yobk. Great con- RicaiRi
fusion has hitherto prevailed with respect to the filiation of this Ahchms
eminent personage ; and Dugdalc,* as well as several other writers
state, that he was the son of Richard first Lord Scrope of Bolton.
The cause of this mistake is easily explained. In the copy of the
Will of Lord Scrope in the Register of the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, there is a bequest in these words : '* Item Domino Archicpo
" Eboi} carisslo filio meo meliorem ciphiim meum de niurreo scitt
" maser;"' and the passage has been deemed such conclusive evi-
dence that he was the son of the testator, as to prevent a doubt
on the subject being raised by the consideration that he is men-
tioned in that will among Lord Scrope's cousins, instead of among
his children,'^ by the impossibility of reconciling the date of the
birth of Roger second Lord Scrope of Bolton with the fact of
this Richard being a Bishop in 13B6, or by the introduction of
' Depositions, pages 146. 188. " Lansdowne MS. 205. fo. 21.
' Depoailiona, p. 146. 236. Sir Thomas Boynlon, however, says Sir Geoffrey
Scrope's Anns were differenced by a label Ennine ; but Rytber b beller authority.
' Baronage, i. p. S55.
" According to the copy or that Will in the Registry of York, Lord Scrope
styled the Arehbiahop " Domino Aichiep'o Ebor" carissi'o palrj et filio meo,"
which renders it raore probable thai the word " sou," as well as fether, was uaed
in a spiritual sense.
* See pages 33, 34, antea.
VOL. II. B
>
122 HISTORY OF THE
Richard the label, the distinguishing mark of the House of Masham, into
ScROPEy
Archbishop his arms. The Will of Sir John Scrope m December 1405, who
OP j^ORK
calls the Archbishop of York his brother ; ^ of Henry Lord Scrope
of Masham in 1415, who speaks of him as his unde ; ^ and the
act of foundation of a chantry in the cathedral church of York
by Thomas fifth Lord Scrope of Masham, by which prayers
were ordered to be said for the souls of his uncle [great uncle]
Richard, formerly Archbishop of York,* prove beyond a doubt
that he was a younger son of Henry first Lord Scrope of Masham.
The word " filio'' in the Will of Richard Lord Scrope of Bolton,
must therefore have been used in a spiritual sense, and meant his
" godson,'^ which h3rpothesis is corroborated by the identity of
their baptismal names.
The exact time of Archbishop Scrope^s birth is not known, but
it probably occurred about the year 1350, and most writers^ assert
that he was educated at Cambridge,^ where he is said to have taken
his degrees of M.A. and LL.D. On the presentation of Richard Lord
Scrope of Bolton, he became Rector of Ajmderby Steeple in York-
shire, which preferment he held between 1367 and 1386.^ In 1373
he was Chancellor of Cambridge, and in 1383 was appointed Dean
of Chichester.'^ Having travelled into Italy, he became an advo-
cate in the Court of Rome, where he particularly distinguished
himself by pleading the causes of the poor. ^ On the 9th August
1386, being then the Pope^s prothonotary,^ he was consecrated
Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, or, as the see was originally
called, Chester, and the King honoured his installation with his
presence.^^
Upon the death of Robert Waldby, Archbishop of York, in
June 1398, Bishop Scrope was translated to that see, which he
' Seepage 128 postea. * See the Proofs of the Pedigree. ' Ibid.
* Wharton's Anglia Sacra, i. 450.
^ According to Maydes tone's History of the Martyrdom of Archbishop Scrope,
he took his B^. degree at Oxford. Anglia Sacra, ii. 369 et seq.
^ Whitaker's Richmondshire, i. 375.
^ Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesie Anglicans. ^ Anglia Sacra, ii. 370.
» Monk of Evesham, p. 71 . *" Anglia Sacra, i. 450, 451 .
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 123
filled with considerable reputation. Satisfied with the promise of Richabd
, - . SCROP»,
Henry the Fourth, that Richard the Second^s life should be pre- Archbishop
served, Scrope consented to his deposition, and assisted at the coro-
nation of his successor ; but afterwards suspecting that Richard was
murdered, he joined a conspiracy against Henry in 1405, to which it
is said he was farther stimulated by that monarches excessive tax-
ation of the clergy.^ His principal confederates were Henry Percy
Earl of Northumberland, and Thomas Mowbray the Earl Marshal,
and he drew his nephew Sir William Plumpton into the plot. With
the view of imparting to the enterprise the sanction of justice, the
Archbishop circulated a manifesto, in which he charged Henry
the Fourth, among other crimes, with having murdered King
Richard.^
Walsingham^s description of this rebellion is nearly in the fol-
lowing words. The Archbishop was possessed of great talents,
and having previously led a blameless life, was deemed to be
actuated by no other motives than a wish to promote the cause
of justice : . consequently, when he declared his opinion to the pub-
lic, in a sermon preached in the cathedral at York, full 20,000
persons flocked to his standard. The King having in the
mean while obtained intimation of the proceedings of the insur-
gents, sent an army of 30,000 men under the command of the
Earl of Westmoreland, and of his son John of Lancaster, to
York. Finding the Archbishop and his allies encamped on a
favourable position in the forest of Oaltry, they deemed it bet-
ter to treat than to risk an engagement. Westmoreland there-
fore sent to the Archbishop to know the cause of his being in
arms, to which the latter replied^ '^ From dread of the King,
whom he could not with safety approach ;^^ and he exhibited a
schedule containing a list of the grievances of himself and his
followers. Westmoreland proposed a conference between the
leaders of the two armies with an equal number of attendants,
which, after some hesitation on the part of the Earl Marshal,
* Anglia Sacra, ii. 369. * Wabinghaniy p. 373.
r2
OP York.
124 HISTORY OF THE
Richard ^^8 acceded to. In this conference, Westmoreland, pretending
SCBOPl, ... . . .
Archbishop to coincide in the opinions of the Archbishop, recommended
him to dismiss the forces by which they were respectively ac-
companied. This was accordingly done, but the EarPs followers
having speedily reassembled, he arrested the Archbishop and the
Earl Marshal, promising them however their lives. Scrope was
conveyed to Pontefract, and thence to his manor-house of Bishops-
thorp near York, where the King then was. He was brought
to trial, but Gascoigne the Chief Justice refused to pass sentence
upon him. " Neither you, my Lord,^ said he, addressing the King,
^* nor any of your subjects, can legally, according to the law of
" the realm, sentence any Bishop to death ;^^ and the historian of
the Archbishop's execution, or, as he terms it, " martyrdom,'^ thus
relates the subsequent proceedings. ** The King immediately
ordered Sir William Fulthorp, a knight and not a judge, to
pronounce sentence of death upon the Archbishop in the hall of
the said manor-house. Fulthorp accordingly sat in the judge's
seat, and commanded Scrope to be brought before him : the Arch-
bishop standing bareheaded, heard the following sentence pro-
nounced : ^ We do adjudge thee, Richard, to death, as a traitor
to the King, and do by the King's command order thee to be
beheaded ;' to which the Archbishop replied, * The just and true
God knoweth that I never intended evil against the person
of Henry the Fourth, now King ;' and which was commonly
believed to have been the fact. Scrope afterwards said to
those standing around him, ^ Pray ye, that the Almighty God
may not avenge my death on the King or on his,' which words
he often repeated, like St. Stephen, who prayed for those that
stoned him. The same day, he was placed on a horse worth 40s.
without a saddle, for which he returned thanks, saying, * No
horse ever pleased me better than this.' He then sang the psalm
^ Exaudi,' riding with a halter and habited in a blood-coloured
1 For Gascoigne*s refusal, Maydestone, in the fervour of ecclesiastical zeal,
exclaims, may his memory ^* be blessed for ever and ever !*'
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 126
garment with sleeves of the same ; for they would not allow him Richard
to wear the linen vestment worn by bishops. And so, with a Archbwhop
purple-coloured hood hanging down his shoulders, he was led ®'^°**-
like a sheep to the slaughter, and opened not his mouth in anger
or to pronounce sentence of excommunication. Having arrived at
the place of execution, he said, * Almighty God, I offer to thee my-
self and the cause for which I suffer, and beg pardon and indul-
gence of thee for all sins by me committed or omitted.' He then
laid his hood and gown on the ground, and observed to his
executioner, Thomas Alman, * Son, may God forgive thee my
death, as I forgive thee ; but I pray thee that thou wilt give me
with thy sword five wounds in the neck, which I desire to bear
for the love of my Lord Jesus Christ, who being for us obedient
unto his Father until death, bore five principal wounds;^ and
three times kissed him. Then kneeling he prayed, saying, ^ Into
thy hands, most sweet Jesus ! I commend my spirit,' with his
hands joined and his eyes raised towards Heaven. Then stretch-
ing out his neck and folding his hands over his breast, the exe-
cutioner at five strokes severed his head from his body.*"^
Thus perished, on the 8th June 1405, Archbishop Scrope, a
prelate of great worth, piety, and learning. His fate excited the
indignation of the Church, and he was considered entitled to the
honours of martyrdom, to which circumstance the exaggierated
description of his virtues may be assigned. Miracles were said to
have been wrought at his tomb ; and the Holy See thundered its
anathemas against Henry the Fourth, as well as against all the
other instruments of Scrope's death, denouncing the penalties of
exconununication upon them.^ The Archbishop was interred in
his cathedral, and his tomb still exists: it is about five yards
long, and is adorned on the sides and at the ends with quatrefoils,
each of which is charged in the middle with a plain escutcheon.
It is caped with a large white stone, on which is a black marble
slab like an altar-stone.
' Maydestone in Anglia Sacra, 370. ' Ibid.
)6 HISTORY OP THE
Archbishop Scrope^ was one of the Bupervisors of the Will of
I Richard the Second, and of the Will of John
I of Gant Duke of Lancaster ; and in 1389, being
then Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, he was
executor to the Will of Ralph Lord Basset of
Drayton. He bore the Arms of Scrope of Ma-
^am, differenced by a bordure Oules, charged
with mitres Or.^
HiHRTScHors. 4. Hbmrv ScnoFE. The grounds for considering that Henry
first Lord Scrope of Masham had a son named Henry, though slight,
seem nevntheless suffident to justify such a statement. He is
noticed in the Deposition of Sir JcAn Richeford, who, when q)eak-
ing of Edward the Third's iqipearance before Paris in May 1360,
said, " Sir Richard Scrope and five others of his name, namely
Sir Henry, Sir William, and Sir Geoffrey, Knights, and Stephen
and Henry, Esquires," were in the army <m that occasion.' Each of
those persons has been identified, excepting the " Henry Scrope,
Esquire;" but his baptismal name, the dates, and the fact that
the Arms irf Sir John Scrope, his presumed brother, were differ-
enced by an annulet, the usual distinction of a fifth son, render it
likdy that this Henry Scrope was the fourth son of Henry Lord
Scrope. As he was only an Esquire in 1360, bis birth may be
assigned to about the year 1345. He probably died young and un-
married, for nothing more is positively known of him than is con-
tained in Richeford's deposition. In a Roll of Arms* compiled in
' " There ia jet in York an instance of this prelate's populaiity ; for in the
Shoemakers' Compan; is kept a bawl called a ' M«zcnK bowl,' edged about
with silter, double gilt, with three silver feet, and cherubs' heads to IL Round
the rim on one aide ia thia iuacriptioD :
ZttitiBrHi att^t itS^oft Atropt grant nnto all ^o
t|)at ttrinfctt of ^is toft rftta^M to parStin.
Drake's History of York, p. 349.
* Anns in York Cathedral. SeethePrDO& of the Pedigree.
* Deposition, p. 242.
* In the possession of the R«v. Jobo Newlii^, CanoQ oflidifield.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM.
127
the reign of Richard the Set;oDd, the following
bearings are assigned to a " Monsire Henry
le Scrope," who may have been the individual
here mentioned : " Azure, a bend Or, a label
of three points Argent, each of the points
charged with three bars Gules."
5. Sir John Scropb. Of this individual, who appears from the Si» Jon
annulet in his arms to have been the fifth son of Henry first
Lord Scrope of Mashani, very little has been discovered. Judg-
ing from the age of his eldest brother, it may be inferred that he
was born about the year 1348 ; but the earliest notice of liim is
in the 44th Edw. III. 1370, when he was appointed to assist the
executors of Lionel late Duke of Clarence, in settling the Duke's
rents in Ireland.' He is stated to have served in France under
tlie Duke of Gloucester in 1380, and Id Scotland in 1383.« In
the 3rd Hen. IV. he was the husband^ of Klizabeth, who was at
that time thirty years of age, the daughter and coheiress of David
de Strabolgi Earl of Atholl, and widow of Sir Thomas Percy,
whom he married about 1390.*
Sir John Scrope held the manor of Haye in Thetfield in the
county of Hertford, of the gift of Henry Lord Scrope his father,
by the service of half a fee and one rose yearly ; ^ which manor
descended to his daughters Joan and Elizabeth, and was held
by them of their uncle Stephen Lord Scrope in 1406.^ Sir
John Scrope' made his Will at York on the 18th December
' Fcedera, iii. p' ii. p. 168. ' Deposition, p. 195.
' A Sir John Scrope is said to have marrieO Alargaiel daughter aod coheiress of
John de Burgh, Lord of Walton and Cawlhom in the county ofYork, 26 Edw.III.,
and if it were the Sir John Scrope mentioned in the text, which the dates render un-
likely, she must have been hi» first wife. — HarleianMS. 1394. fo. 67, being a copy of
the ViaitatioQ or Yorkshire in 1584, in (he handnriling of Glover, Somerset Herald.
' Vincent on Broke, p. 610, on the auUiorityof PlacitaMich, IS Ric. II. rot. 22.
' Esch. 16 Ric. II. n" 28. See the Proofs of Pedigree.
» Each. T Hen. IV. n° 52. See the Proofs of Pedigree.
' A gold tup was bequeathed to him by his coi^siu Richard first Lord Scrope of
Bolton in 1400.
1
1
SCROPE.
128 HISTORY OF THE
Sir John 1405, and died a few days afterwards, as it was proved on
the 23rd of the same month. That document contains so much
information respecting the Scrope family, that a copy of it is
subjoined.
** In dei noie Amen. Ego JoHes Lescrop miles compos mentis
& sane memorie xviij'' die mens Decembf anno dni milhno cccc"^^
quinto condo testamentu meQ in hunc modu. In p^mis lego &
comendo aiam meam deo & ISte Marie & oib3 scis corpus q^ meQ
ad sepeliend' ucuq) deo placuerit. It do & lego ecctie sci Petri
Eboif unu vestimentu viride cum casula capa & dalmaticf . Item
lego dno Henrico Lescrop bibliam mea. Item Johanne filie mee
unu libru de gallic vocat' tristrem. It^ Elizabeth filie mee unu
Ubrii de gallico vocat' g*ce dieu. Item dno Henf de P'cy filio meo^
unu ciphu argentat cooptu. Itm lego ffnb3 cartusien jux^ hutt
p emendacSne uni^ finis elevaf xx. ii. p ecctia de fibstetoii scdm
discrecom executoif meoif. Item lego Johanni de Ferriby fuienti
meo c. s. scdm ordinacSnem executoif meo2f. Itm do & lego totum
residuu bonoif meoif supius non legat"* debitis meis plenarie psolutis
& li^is meis relevatf & pmotis Elizabeth uxori mee ipam q^ Eliza-
beth uxem meam & dnm Henricum I^escrop militem ordino & con-
stituo executores meos una cu supuisione Re^ viri mi^ri Johannis
de Neuton Thesaurar ecctie Eboif ut ipi deu p oculis Kentes dis-
ponant ^ salute aie mee put sibi meli^ videbit' expedire. Item
infScriptis executorib^ meis rogo & injungo qd omia in ^senti
testamento meo script soluant** & pficiant** de residuo bonoif meoif
infra bienniu p executores meos infrascriptf . Et si contingat qd
bona mea non sufficiant ad soluend debita mea & pficiend testm
meu tunc volo qd feofiati de mai{?iis terris & ten meis pficiant sicut
scripsi p voluntate mea p unu scriptu qua?ptitu cuj^ quidem
script! qua?ptiti una ps remanebat in manib; Ref^ pris & dni dni
Rici nup Ar*epi Eboif flFns mei Scda ps remanebat in maib3 hono-
rabit flFris mei dni Stepfii Lescrop militis Tercia ps in maib3 dni
Jotais de Leek' Quarta ps remanet in maib3 Elizabett[ uxis mee.
Dat' apud Eboif die & anno dni supradictf .
P"'batii fuit pns testm p custodem spualitatis Archiepat^ Eboif
ipa sede ia vacante xxiij" die mens Decembr Anno dni sup'dco.'"
* His son-in-law, — his wife's son by her first husband.
FAMILY OF SCBOPF. OF MASHAHr.
By Elizabeth de Strabolgi, who, in 1416,
took to her third husband Robert de Thorley,
Esquire,' Sir John left two daughters his
coheirs, Elizabeth who married Sir Richard
Hastings, Knight,- and Margaret who became
the wife of Thomas Clarell of Glarell near Ticiv-
hill in Yorkshire, Esq.' His arms were. Azure,
a bend Or, a label Argent; an annulet for dififerenee on the bend,*
Joan Scrope, daughter of Henry first Lord Scrope of Masham,
married Henry second Lord Fitz Hugh, and about 1363 became
the mother of Henry third Lord Fitz Hugh, K, G." who is fre-
quently mentioned in the Wills of the Scrope family, and who was
the ancestor of the subsequent Barons Fitz Hugh.
Isabella Scrope, another daughter of Henry Lord Scrope, wife Iubilu
of Sir Robert Plumpton, of Plumpton co. York, Knight, was
bom on St. Bartholomew's day, 24t!i August 1337, as appears by
the following inscription extant in Spofforth Church in 1613:*
feic cintrtff S'n.ic iplumpton rttnanint S^tiabcUat
®unt fuit ftiiiriti fili.i ^iropt Domim
jH flrmtl ttir C ttr I itmtl b Suo jungt
Sarttjolomati tiia Iiii tiiDit astra iua.
By Sir Robert Plumpton she liad a large family :' her eldest
son, Sir William Plumpton, having joined his uncle Archbishop
Scrope in his rebellion, shared his fate, and was beheaded at York
on the 8th June 1405. This fact is alluded to in another epitaph
which, in 1613, was also extant on a tomb in the same church : »
' Vincenl on Brooke, p. 612. Rot. Orig. 4Hen. V,
' This Sir Richard Haalings waa probably the Richard Hastings who was the
next brother of Sir Ralph Hastings, Knl. beheaded 20 July 6 Hen. IV. for e
spiring with Archbishop Scrope. Sir Kichaid ilttstiogs had restitution of tlie lands
of the (amily, (Hoi. Pari. 11 Hen. IV. n* 42,) and died 15 Hen. VI. s. p. leaving
Leonard Hastings his brother his heir, iheu s». 40.
' Philpot's Yorkshire, in the College of Arms, f. 211 b. The Arms of Scrope
impaling Clarell occur in Rotheram Church. Seethe Proofs and Illustrations.
' Anns in the Churches of llolheram and Rawmareh. See the Proofs and
Illustrations. ' Esch. 10 Ric. II. n" IB. ' Vincent's Yorkshire, o" 111, f 30.
' Esch. 8 Hen. IV. n" 15, and pedigrees of Plunnpton in Ihe Visilations of
Yorkshire. ' Dugdale's Yorkshire Anns, f. 42.
vou II. s
M
130 HISTORY OF THE
ffUUn tram tfutftttn Sl^mpton WiilVmwi bodtatui^
9rat^vliii atqut mjfon U ^cropp licet ^ic twcnuUtta
iQIorttK tauna iui mix^i ckvaa Cuit momntft
ffloxn capitis qniffft luiiitnttn mak fxtHiit utntmqut
9niu) jflltllmo q[uaUr et C i^k q[uoq[ue qutnto
J^mtkoiM mt lui craittma itumpiitt ab orbe.
Sir William left several children, two of whom, Bryan and Ri-
chard Plumpton, are mentioned in the Will of their cousin Ste-
phen Scrope, Archdeacon of Richmond, in 1418.
Stephen SIR STEPHEN SCROPE, SECOND LoRD ScROPE OP MaSHAM,
SECOND LOED -»▼ /.-ri^ /•«•rt
Scrope. was the second son of Henry first Lord Scrope of Masham.
It was found by the inquisition on his father^s decease in July 1391,
that he was forty years of age and upwards ; but it is probable
that he was then nearly fifty, and his birth may be assigned to
about the year 134f5. The first notice of him is, that in April 1360
he was an Esquire in the army with which Edward the Third
appeared before Paris.^ During the peace with France, the King
of Cyprus raised an army for a Crusade in the Holy Land, and
Scrope was one of the English who served in the expedition. In
October 1365 they took Alexandria, on which occasion the King
of Cyprus conferred upon him the honour of knighthood : ^
" O worthy Petro ! King of Cypre also,
That Alexandrie wan by high maistrie.'
Scrope appears to have returned to England soon afterwards,
as he was in the army with which the Duke of Lancaster landed
at Calais and proceeded through France to Bordeaux in 1366 ;^
and it would seem from this circumstance that it was he, rather
than Sir Stephen Scrope his uncle, who was at the battle of
Najara in April 1367. The next circumstance that has been
discovered about him is, that in Easter Term 1 Ric. II. 1378, he
and Margery his wife levied a fine to surrender the manor of
Pyncebek for 200 marks to the Earl of SuflTolk.* In 1391, he
succeeded his father in the Barony of Scrope of Masham, and
* Deposition, p. 242. ' Ibid.p. 124, 125. ' Chaucer*s Monkes Tale, 1. 14701.
^ Deposition, p. 210. ^ Harleian Charter 57. C. 40.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MA.SHAM, 131
was Summoned to Parliament from 23rd November, 16 Ric. II. ^""•'
1392, to the lat January 7 Hen. IV. 1406. A deed dated on the Si;bop£
Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, 19 Ric. II. 1395, in which he
is styled " Stephus le Scrope Chlr Diis de Masham," relative to
certain lands in Weeton near Harwood, is still extant.' Lord
Scrope was one of the few peers whose namea are not to be found
among the Barons who sanctioned the usurpation of Henry the
Fourth by their presence in Parliament. Accordiog to Otter-
bourne, he took his 7<eat in that Parliament as a Baron ;^ but there
is no evidence of the fact, nor does it appear from the Rolls that
he ever sat in Parliament. The career of Stephen Lord Scropt
was much less distinguished than that of his father or grandfather,
possibly from his not having succeeded tn the honours and pro-
perty of his family until a late period of life. In the Parliament
which met at Coventry on the 6th of October, 6 Hen. IV, 1404,
" Estephen le Scrope de Masham Chivaler'^ petitioned with success
for a confirmation of the manor of Faxflete in the county of York,
ten marks rent in Northdalton, and 20/. yearly out of the fee farm
of the town of Kingston upon Hull, to be holden of the King in
full satisfaction of an annuity of 200 marks yearly, which had
been granted by Edward III. to Geoffrey Scrope the grandfather
of the said Stephen, to enable him to maintain the rank of a
Banneret.'
Stephen Lord Scrope made his Will on the morrow of the
Epiphany, 7 January 1405-6, whereby he ordered his body to
be buried in the cathedral church of York, namely, in the new
work in the middle of the chapel before the steps of the altar
of St. Stephen. To Margery his wife, he bequeathed a cross
which, he observes, had belonged to the Duke of Gloucester, with
a gilt chalice which he had of the gift of the Archdeacon his son,
together with twelve silver dishes with th« arms of Huntingfield,
which " Master Geoffrey," his uncle,* bequeathed to him ^ and
a gilt cup which was bequeathed to him by Richard Scrope.''
1 Harleian Charter, 1 12. D, 13. ' Ed. Heanie, p. 250.
' Kot. Pari. iii. p. 550. See a copy of tlic gnuil inp^es 117, 118 antea.
■ " Patnius meua." ' Richard GrsI Lord Sciope of Bolton. See page 34.
138
HISTORY OF THE
Bequests are also made to Henry his son, toLadyPhilippaleScrope
his daughter, to Geoffrey his son, and to Stephen, Archdeacon of
Richmond ; to John le Scrope his eon, to William le Scrope his
son, to the Lady Elizabeth le Scrope his dster, to the Lord Welles,
to Matilda de Ormond, to Mary Mauliverer, and to Margery
Skelton. He appointed Richard de Norton, William de Huse,
Rector of Bowdon, William Blase, Rector of Aynderby Steeple,
William Rosselyn, and William Wymondswold, his executors,
and Margery his wife, and Henry his son, supervisors. His Will
was proved at York on the 25th January 1406.'
After his father's death, he assumed his arms,
namely, Azure, a bend Or, with a label Argent ;
but previously to that event, he bore the label
with a distinction, though it is not stated what
the difference was.' It may be presumed, how-
ever, that after the death of his elder brother,
he followed the example of his father, who bore
a label gobonne. Argent and Gules, un-
til he succeeded to the Barony. The
Crest of the Lords Scrope of Masham
was a Crab Or issuing out of a coro>
net;^ and they also sometimes used a
Crab as their Badge.* Another of their
Badges is represented in the annexed
engraving.*
Lord Scrope died on the 26th January 1406,* and must have
been then between sixty and seventy years of age. He married
before 1376 Margery, dau^ter of John third Lord Welles, and
widow of John Lord Huntingfield,' and by her, who died on
the 29th May 10 Hen. V. 1422,9 had issue,
' Registiy of the Archbishop of York. ' Deposition, page IBS.
' See the Seal of Henry First Lord Scrope of Masham in page 1 19.
' HaTleianMS.1366,andKoi.Pail.iT. See thePTDofsaudlUustcations, p.l41.
* Copied from a dtawing by Glover, Somerset Heiald, inthe UarleianMS. 13M.
' Esch-rHeo. lV.n»52.
' Unsdowne MS. 205, Vincent's MSS. and otlier authorities in the Collc^
of Arm» ; coitoboraled by the Will of Henry third Lord Scrope of Masham. See
the Proofs and lllustiationi. ' Escb. i Hen. VI. it" 34.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM.
1. SIR HENRY SCROPE, K. G. third Lord Sorope (
Mashah, who was found to be upwards of thirty at his father's sfcown
death. He became Treasurer of England, was attainted and
beheaded in August 1+15, and died without issue.'
2. Sir Geoffrey Scbope, Knight, who on the 12th May, 10th
Hen. IV. 1409, being then a knight, received a grant of twenty
marks p*!r annum out of the lordship of Thoreaby in Lincoln-
shire, for the services which he had rendered the King.- He died
in 6th Hen. V. 1418, without issue, being then seised of the
manors of Southmuskham and South Carltun in the county of
Nottingham.'
3. Stbpkbn Schope, a Priest, who was collated to the Prebend
of Langtoft 28th December 1399. On the 19th May 1400, he was
appointed Archdeacon of Richmond, and installed by proxy on
the 22nd of that month, which office he held with other benefices.
In 1414, he wa? Chancellor of Cambridge; and died 5th Sep-
tember 1418. A copy of his Will, dated 23rd August 1418, and
proved 7th September following, will be found among the proofs
of the pedigree.
4 JOHN FoiRTH LORD SCROPE of Masham.
5. William Sckope, who was a Priest, and died Archdeacon of
Durham 12th May 1463.*
6. Maid, a Nun in the Minories, London : she was living in
August 1418.
7. A DAL'uHTER, who married Frevyll, and had issue.'
The descent of the family of Scrufe op Masham after the reign
of Henry the Fourth, will be found in the annexed Pedigree.
' See the Pedigree. ■ Recotdsof the Duchy ofLancaaler.
' Each. 6 Hen. V. n° 3. ' Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesi» Anglks
' According lo Ihe Will of Henry ihird Lord Scrope of Masliam his sister
Frevjl] had one son, a daughter Elizabeth, and oiher daughtets, and it is not im-
probable that she was the wife of Sir Baldwin Freville, who dying in 2 lien. IV.
left issue a son Baldn-in, who died a minor in the 6 Uen.V., and three dauj^hlers:
1. Eliiftbelh the wife of Thomas second son of William Lord Ferrers of Groby ;
3. Margaret wife of Sir Hugh Willoughby, and afterwards of Sir Richard Bing-
ham ; and 3, Joice, who married lloger Aston, Esquire. The pedigrees generally
state, however, tliut the wife of the said Sir BnidwlD Freville was Joan dkughtei
of Sir John Green, Kuighl.
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OF SCROPE OF MASHAM.
ABSTRACT OF THE INQUISITIONS AFTER THE DEATH OF HENRY FIRST LORD
SCROPE OF MASHAM, 16 RIC. II. 1392.
Inq. capta apud Kirkby in Com. Suff. die Martis prox. post festum
Nativitatis beate Marie Virginis 16 Ric. II. coram Johanne Winter es-
caetore SufF. '< Henricus le Scrop Ch'r tenuit die quo obiit manerium
de Weyionde quod est in confinis de SufF. et Essex, et manerium ex-
tenditur ; et predictus Henricus obiit 31 Julii anno Regis nunc 16, et
quod Stephanus Scrope Ch'r est fiiius et heres propinquior et etatis 40
annorum et ampiius."
Inq. coram Thoma Coppeshail escaetore Hertforde die Sabbati prox.
post festum sancti Barthoiomei apostoli 16 Ric. II. <* Juratores dicunt
quod Johannes Scrope Ch'r tenuit de dicto Henrico le Scrope Ch'r die
quo idem Henricus obiit manerium de Haye iu Thetfelde per servitium
dimid. feodi miiitis et servitium unius rose per annum reddendo predictam
rosam ad festum sancti Johannis Baptiste."
Inq. capta apud Southmuskham die Martis prox. post festum sancti
Barthoiomei anno 16 Ric. II. coram Johanne de Bruggeford escaetore
Notingham'. " Juratores dicunt quod Henricus ie Scrope tenuit in
dominico suo ut de feodo die quo obiit manerium de Southmuskham in
Carleton juxta Southmuskham de domino Archiepiscopo Eborum ut de
manerio suo de Suthwell quod est de Baronia de Shirbume per servitium
ij*. per annum, et per tantum servitium quantum pertinet ad medietatem
feodi unius miiitis, et manerium extenditur; et Henricus obiit 31 Julii,
et quidem Stephanus le Scrope Ch'r est fiiius et heres etatis 40 annorum."
Inq. capta apud Bedale in Com. Eborum die Jovis prox. ante festum
sancti Barthoiomei apostoli 16 Ric. II. '* Juratores dicunt quod Hen-
ricus Lescrdp tenuit die quo obiit manerium de Massham de Thoma de
Moubray Comite MarescaV per servitium unius sagitte barbate per an-
num. Sec. Item dicunt quod Johannes Lescrop Ch'r tenuit manerium
de HoUynhalle de predicto Henrico die quo obiit per servicia medietatis
unius feodi miiitis et unius rose. Sec, Item dicunt quod predictus Hen-
ricus obiit ultimo die mensis Julii ultimo preterite, et quod Stephanus
Lescrop Ch'r fiiius predicti Henrici est heres ejusdem Henrici pro-
FAMILY OF SCROPF. OF RIASKAM- 139
pioquior et etalis 40 aDnanim et amplius." Esc. 16 Rie. 11. p. 1.
No. 28. m. 1.
4BBTRACT OP THE INQUISITIONS AFTER THE DEATH OF STEPHEN SECOND
LORD SCROPE OF MASHAM, 7 BBN. IV. 1406.
In«. apud Paulinescray die Mercurii post festum sancti Petri in Ca-
thedra 7 Hen. IV. coram Waltero Roo escaetore Kane'. " Juralores
dicunt quod Stephanus le Scrope de Masham obiit seisitus de manerio
de Paulinescrey quod tenelur de domino Rege nt de feodo de Lisle quod
est parcella Ducatus sui Laacastr' perhomagium et servitium unius feodi
militJs ; et Stephanus obiit 25 Jan, ultimo preterito, el quod Henricus
le Scrope est filius et heros ejus propinqulor et etatis 30' annorum et
Inq. capta apud Storteford in com. Hertford die Jovis in craatino
sancti Mathie apostoii 7 Hen, IV. " Juratores dicunt quod Ste-
phanus le Scrop de Maasham Cli'r nulla terras et tenementa teniiit
de Rege in capite in com. predicto, sed dicunt quod Johanna et Eliza-
beth filie Johannis Lescrop' Ch'r nuper defuncti tenuenint de predicto
Stcphano die quo idem Stephanus obiit manerium de Hay in Therfelde
quod idem Stephanus ulterius tenuit de Abbate de Ramesey per servi-
tium xiij s. iv d. ad Festum Pasche. Et dicunt quod predictus Stephanus
obiit die Lune 25 die Januarii ultimo preterito, et quod Henricus Le-
scrop Ch'r filius predict! Stepbani eat heres cjusdem Stephani propinquior
et etatia 30 annorum et amplius." Esc. 7 Hen. IV. No. 52.
Inq. capta apud Lowth 9 Februarii 7 Hen. IV. coram Will'mo de
Gybthorpe de Thorpe escaetore Dncoln'. " Diclus Stephanus obiit
seisitus de manerio de Bernolby quod se extendit in Bernolby, Wal-
tham, Wayth, Howton, Biggersley, et Aablye, quod tenetur de domino
Rege in capit* in socagio ut de soca sua de Waltham, et manerium de
Bernolby extcnditur. Margareta uxor diet! Stephani, Henricus heres
ejus ut supra."
EXTRACT FROM A CHARTER RELATING TO FUIUPFA, FIRST WIPE OP HENRY
THIRD BASON SCROPB IIP MASHAH, K- G. 22 RIO. II.
Rex Escaetori suo in Com. Somers. et Dors, salutem. Quia Philippa
filia Guidonis fitii Guidonis de Briene militis defuncti qui de nobis
tenuit in capite, una consanguinearum et heredum tam ejusdem Gui-
' In another copy he is saiil lo liave been thirty-three years of ^e.
' The inquisition taken in Yorkshire raenlious Ehzabetli the wife of this Sir
Julm Scrope.
140 HISTORY OF THE
donis patris quam Will'i de Briene militis filii predict! Guidonis patris
similiter defuncti, quam Henricus Lescrop Chivaier duxit in uxorem,
etatem suam coram Johanne Copleston nuper escaetore nostro in Com.
Devon sufficienter probavit, sicut per probationem iliam de mandato
nostro captam, &c. Ciaus. 22 Ric. II. p. 1. m. 3.
ABSTRACT OF AN ENTRY IN THE REGISTER OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON RELA-
TIVE TO THE MARRU6E OF HENRY, THIRD LORD SCROPE OF MASHAM,
K. G. WITH PHILIPPA WIDOW OF SIR JOHN DEVEREUX, JULY 1398.
Sir Henry Scrope, Knight, and Phiiippa relict of Sir John Dewros,
[Devereux.] They found after marriage that they were related in the
third and fourth degrees, and obtained a dispensation by a Bull of Pope
Boniface IX. in his 9th year, which was directed to the Archbishop of
York, and recited by him in the chapel of Turnham Hall, York, 11 July
1398. Sir Stephen Scrope and Sir John Scrope, Knights, and John
Botelisham canon of York, chancellor to the Archbishop, being witnesses
to the attestation of the notary. The bull, and the proofs, were inspected
and again ratified by the Bishop of London, in the month of February
1400 ; in whose register it is recorded. [Register Braybroke.]
INQUISITION TAKEN AFTER THE DEATH OF PHILIPPA, FIRST WIFE OF HENRY
THIRD LORD SCROPE OF MASHAM, 8 HEN. IV.
'* JuRATORES dicunt quod Phiiippa que fuit uxor Henrici Lescrop de
Masham^ obiit 19" die Novembris sine herede de corpore suo exeunte,
et quod EUizabeth uxor Roberti Lovell est soror predicte Philippe et
heres ejus propinquior et est etatis 24 annorum et amplius." Esc. 8
Hen. IV. No. 54.
A LETTER FROM ROBERT LORD WILLOUGHBY OF ERESBY, TO HENRY LORD
FITZ HUGH, INFORMING HIM OF THE INTENDED MARRIAGE OF HENRY,
THIRD LORD SCROPE OF MASHAM, K. G. WITH THE DUCHESS OF YORK,
DATED 9TH SEPTEMBER 1411. ^
HoNURE S^ et tressouv'aignement bien ame Pier. Je me comank a
vous en taunt com Je say ou plus puisse. Desiraunt toutduz a oier et
savoir bones novelx de vous et de v're honurable estat quels ieo prie
a Dieux qe toutz jours sibones soient come vous mesmez sauetz mieulx
deviser ou soh aider et come Je vorroie sen tier de moy mesmes. £t vous
please de savoir honure S"^ qe iay p''sue a ma treshonuree dame et miere
' Dodsworth's MS. 118, f. 53. in the Bodleian Library.
FAMILV OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 141
la duchesse Dev'wyk p' certainez chosez n' a moi deussent descender par
voie del heritage ct unquore ie nay rulle deliv'ance deceits et cett cause
moy fate destre absente de vous si longement. Voiis enprie qe ne soiez
displeasez dautre part ma d'ce tres honuree dame soy p'pose destre
mariez ove Ie Sire de Scrope Tresorer dengleterre en tout Ie hast sj come
jeo suy enlVraez et p' tant qele ferroit carier ]ez bieiis av'untdiz hoes dii
pays tanq' ils furent deliv'e/ jeo suy demo^antz et exspectantz en la
pays. Et touchant lez novel' n're S' Ic y sey p'poae daler vers \-oz
parties si come Jeo suy enfourrae. Honure S' si rien soit qe jeo p'ra
faire moy voillez certifier et jeo lez parlVnera de tres lee coer al tout mon
poair. Autres ne say a vous escricr mes je prie a n're S' tout puissant
V0U3 eit en sa t'sentisme garde et vous ottroie tres bone vie et longe a
endure. Escr' a Eiesby Ie Marsdy apres Ie fest del Nativite n're Dame.
Tout Ie v're filz Rob't le
Wylughby S'de Eresby.
GRANT Of THE MANOR OP AULTON TO HENHV, THIRD LORD SCROPE OP
D HIS SECOND WIFK JOAN IJllCHESS OP YORK, 12 HEN. IV.
Rkx, &c. Assignavimus Henrico Lescrop Ch'r et Johaane Ducisse
Eborum uxori ejus, uni sororum Edmundi fratris Thome filii Thome lilii
Johaone sororis predicti nuper Comitis [John Earl of Kent] consau-
guiuee et uni heredura ejusdem Comitis, manerium de Aulton," &c,
RoL Fin. 1£ Hen. IV. m. 7.
NOTICES OP VARIOUS ARTICLES
FORFEITED
TO THE CROWN BY HENRY, THIRD
LORD BCHOPE OF MASHAM
, R. C. IN
1415, AND FOUND AMONG IHB
EFFECTS OF KING HENBV T
HE MPTB.'
Item, 1 maser, ovec I'armes
d'Escrop
eu le founce, gamiz
d'arg" dorrez, pris . . • xxxvij"
Item, ij tapites vermaillea, ovec arm' d'Escrop', donnt j de ij
verges di' de longur* & ij verges de large, & I'autre d'un
verge di' de longure & ij verges de large, en tout viij verg*,
ovec les arm" d'Escrop.
Item, veil ceel de soy, overez du brouderie des arm' d'Escrop,
Sc de Crables, & j lite de worsted, les bordures de 5oy,
ovec les arm' de Charbokles, pris de toutz . . , xx*
Item, j tapite de bloy tapicerie ovec lea ann' d'Escrop, pris . ij»
Item, ij pelites carpettz, pris I'une ad v', fit I'autre ad iij' iiij'' , viij' iiij''
I Rol. Patl. iv. p. 224, 233. 235. 23'J. 340.
ta
142 HISTORY OF THE
Item, ij tentes de bloy carde, linez de toill liage, queux furent
au S^ Herry d'Escrop, ovec j porche, & j aley : pris de tout vj» iij* iiij*
EXT^CTS FROM THE WILL OP HENRY THIRD LORD SCROPE OF
MASHAM, DATED 23 JUNE 1415.^
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, Amen. Ego Henricus,
Dominus le Scrop, &c. Volo qu6d, si, post decessum meum, Johanna
Ducissa Eborum, consors mea, consenserit, ut se obligavit, corpus suum
sepeliri cum corpore meo in Ecclesia Eborum, tunc Volo qn6d Tumba
decens & honesta, prout congruit personee suee & person» mese, fiat
inter duas columpnas, ex parte Boreali, retro magnum altare, expensis
meis, juxta consilium & ordinationem dictee consortis meee & execu-
torum meorum. Et, si contingat ipsam illud renuere, contra promissum
suum, michi voluntari^ factum (quod absit) tunc Volo quod in Capella
Sancti Stephani, ex parte Boreali Ecclesiee prsedictee ex parte Boreali
Tumbffi Domini Patris mei, in Capella ubi ipse jacet, fiat Tumba mea,
babens Nomen meum & Obitum scriptum in ilia parte tumbas versus
Ecclesiam, & Imaginem mei super dictam tumbam, armatam in Armis
meis, cum Umbra Leonis in le Bende, prout vivens utor.
Item, lego tribus Capellanis, honestis & bene viventibus, \xL sub
istis conditionibus ; quod securitatem inveniant qu6d celebrent, in
Ecclesia prcedicta (videlicet) ubi Tumba mea erit, si ibi sit altare, &
aliter in Capella Sancti Stephani, per tres annos integros, &c. et, ad
quamlibet Missam, per ipsos celebrandam, dicatur bsc Oratio ; Deus
qui es Summa gpes Redemptionisy cum Secreta, & Post Communione,
inde pertinentibus ; et quod habeant specialiter memoriam anim» mesc,
et animae Domini Patris mei, et PhilippeB nuper uxoris meas, et Thomse
Clyff, et an im arum, videlicet, Ricardi quondam Archiepiscopi Eborum,
Dominse Alianorse, nuper Ducissee Gloucestriae, Domini Henrici le
Scrop, Domini Johannse uxoris suee, Dominee Matildis de Wells,
Domini Thomse, nuper Ducis Gloucestriee, Ricardi & Henrici nuper
Regum Anglise, Johannis le Scrop, Matildis Fischebum, Matildis Juette,
Johannis, Ricardi , & omnium fratrum & sororum meorum defunctorum ;
habeant etiam specialem memoriam pro animabus, Johannis Pierre,
et Domini Petri de Garston, et Fratris Thomee Berfeld, Thomas Helmes-
ley, Willielmi Sparowe, Bartholomei Power, Johannis Wetherall, et
Domini Roberti Thornton, et Ricardi Eltoft, et omnium fidelium de-
functorum. Item, pro statu viventium»; videlicet, Henrici Regis Angliae,
Johannae Ducissce Eborum, consortis mesB, Dominae Margeriae matris
* Printed at length in the " Foedera."
/
FAMILY OF SCBOPE OF MASHAM. .143
me», eteonim liberorum, pro statu Domini Henrici Fiu Hugli, Do-
minffi AlicJK de Briene, Johaiinis Asliy, et Ricardi Walagre, et pio
animabtts ptadictotum, si ante sepulturam meant obierint.
Item, lego AbbatiEc de Louthpart ii capas de rubea veste de aiiro,
cum amis meis antiquis, &c.
Item, lego Ecclesiee Parochiali de Thorp Constaiitini, Capelire de
■Witton, Capellte Caalariffi de Benton, Capella; infra Manerium de
Neyloud, & CapellEe de Marros ia Wallia, &c. ha quod omnes rectores
ecclesiarum & capellarum prcedictarum sint rogati & admoniti ad oran-
dum pro anima mea, & specialiter in diebus dominiris memoriam mei
habeant in orationibus suis, & specialiter in missis suis, ac etiam specia-
lius apud Kyluyngton & Scurveton orent pro animabus Domini Petri
de Garston & Matildis de Fishburn, & apud Maclous pro anima Alani
de Thorn baro we.
Item, lego Feretro Sancti Johannis de Bridlyngton, unum colarium
de auro, cum cignis albis & parvis floribus, quod habeo inecum.
Item, lego sibi, qui erit hEcres raeus masculus tempore mortis mete,
ad terminum viCee ante, totam armaturani michi per dominum meum
Patrem legatam, & omnem armaturam meam ; et etiam lego dicto beeredi
masculo, ad terminum vitte sueg, unam magnam tentam, cum aula, vi.
turribus, & duas sellas meas bastardas coopertas in rubeo velwet, cum
sellis & omni apparatu pro hastiludendo, ita tamen quod omnia pranlicta,
tarn de armaturis quam de sellis, & aliis rebus pro hastiludendo, integre
remaneant haeredibus meis, pro munitione alicujus fortalitise, apud Clyflon
vel alibi (ai Deo placuerit) facienda, absque venditione vel alienatione
qoacumque.
Item, lego illi, qui vel quie erit hsres mens tempore mortis dominm
matris mex Margcriffi Dominae le Scrop (videlicet) post decessum ipsius
Margeriae, omnes libros capellte, sibi & michi, per dictum dominum Pa-
trem meum, legatus, ac unum portoforium & unum missale de uau Ebo-
rum, & unum librum de Viti» Sanctorum in Gallicis, habendum ad totam
vitam dicti haeredls mei.
Item, lego Domino Regi, qui pro tempore fuerit, iroaginem beatse
Maiis de auro, garnisatam cum balisiis Se parulis ; humiliter supplicans
ut sit bonus dominus & gratiosus Uxori, doming Matri mese, & Hitredi meo.
Item, lego Hentico Episcopo Wyntonia; unum parvum portoph
coopertum in blodio velwet, quod quondam Dominus Gloucestris michi
dedit.
Item, lego Domino Comiti Dorsetice unum librum de Medilationibus,
coopertum in veste rubea de auro de Cipre, pro remembrantia.
144 HISTORY OF THE
Item, lego Domino Thomse Langeley, episcopo Dunolmensi, unum
librum de MeditationibuSy qui incipit sic, Cum bona aventura cum passione^
pro remembrancia.
Item, lego Dominse de Dryeu,* matri meae, unum maserium coopertum
cum pede & borduris argenteis & deauratum & blodio pomell in sum-
mitate, &c. & unum librum de Gallicis, qui incipit, Car tout on soli que
home fait de bouche, &c. pro remembrancia.
Item, lego Henrico Domino Fitz Hugh, consanguineo meo, unum
librum qui incipit, Cum libro vocato Sintillar, & in quo continetur In-
cendium Amoris, quem Richardus Heremita composuit, & unum qua-
ternum parvum, in quo continetur expositio super Judica me Deus,
quod Richardus Heremita composuit & scripsit, pro remembrancia.
Item, lego avunculo meo Domino de Welle unum par de pater noster
de auro cum gaudiis de curallo, & i. firmaculum de auro, pro remem-
brancia.
Item, lego Dominae Elizabethee le Scrop materterae meae, unum rotu-
lum cum xv. gaudiis bene depictum, & i. par de pater noster de curallo
cum gaudiis de aumbre, cum i. firmaculo parvo de auro, pro remem-
brancia.
Item, Dominae JohanneB de Swillington, consanguine» mefie, unum
parvum nouch, habens intus i. catellum album, cum i. saBro parvo, &
magnum par de pater noster de albo aumbre, pro remembrancia. £t
Elizabethae Lovell, sorori meae, i. tracleere argenteum & deauratum, cum
costis de birall, pro remembrancia.
Item, lego Stephano fratri meo, Archidiacono Richmundiee, unum
par tabellarum cerearum de argento deauratum, &c.
Item, lego Johanni le Scrop, fratri meo, unum Psalterium novum
glossatum, elumpnatum cum arm is meis & uxoris meae, &c.
Item, lego sorori meae Matildi, minorissae Londoniae, unam parvam
tabulam ebumeam, sculptam cum imaginibus, &c.
Item, lego Willielmo fratri meo i. par de pater noster de gete
geinsed cum gaudiis deauratum, quondam Dominse le Scrop avse meae^ &c.
Item, Alianorse Seint John, consanguinese meae, i. parvum nouche de
auro, pro remembrancia.
Item, lego nepoti meo Frevyl i. bonum nouche, & cuilibet suarum
sororum nepotum mearum, aut i. nouche, &c.
Item, consanguineis meis, filiabus Domini Johannis le Scrop, avunculi
mei (videlicet) cuilibet illarum, unum bonum anulum de auro, vel firma-
' Query, Devereux^ the mother-in-law of the testator's first wife; or is the word
misprinted for Bryen, her own mother ?
yAMll.V OF SCROI'K OF MASIIAM. 145
culum. Et consanguineic mex Dominto Matildcc Skidmore i. parvum
Agnus Dei de auro, & unum aniilum de auro.
Item, Sibe]la.'\ie Bello Campo unum primeriura cum matutjnis beata.'
MaricE Virginis in Anglicis, pro remembrancia. Et Maris Malivere
unum anuhim aureum, Sc uDum rotulum cum orationibus dicendis ad
missam, &c. Et Domino Halnalheo Malivere uaum comu album, bene
hernesatum cum argento deaurato turn nigro tissu.
Item. Galfrido Savage uaam bonam togam duplicatam de lana, &c.
Et Domino Johaoni Broke i. parvum par de pater noater de curall cum
gaudiisde auro, &c.
Item, Richardo de Norton unam bonam vestem de baudekyn de
Cipre, &c.
Item, lego Richardo Wyvyll, Rogero Wentworth, Roberto Lane, &
Adtc Frost (videlicet) cuilibet eorum, si tempore mortis mei sinl mecum
commorantes in hospitio raeo, sive de jocalibus, sive de apparatu, usque
ad valorem ci. & Roberto Lane ultra hoc c», & Radulpho fianistre \/.
deducendas in partem solutionis summa: quam michi debet, &c.
Item, lego Johanni Asby unum de melioribus equis meis, &c.
Item, lego eidem Johanni Asby gladium meum heraesatum in nigro
velvet imbrodatum, &c.
Item, lego Johanni Asby xt. libras argeoti, quod quidem argentum
volo custodiri in manibus executorum meorum ad hoc, quod dictUB
Johannes per illud,& cum xl. marcis Se xxl. quas habet, habere poterit
aliquod suificiens incrementum aibi & hs:redibuB suis ; intime supplicang
executores meos quatinus fideliter, efficaciter, 8c festinanter velinl la-
borare ad voluntatem raeam perficiendam in iacremento pra^dicto-
Item, lego Katerinic Asby, uxori priedicti Johannis, unam longaiii
furruram de greye, & i. de meoyuer secundum dispositionem executorum
meorum, 4; unum parvum colarium de auro cum S. & i. zonam cum
rosis de auro super nigro tissu, & xl. pro remembrancia.
Item, lego Johanni Ferby cs. & i. de meis togis duplicatis ve!
valorem.
Item, lego Roberto tane c j. ultra hoc quod antea legavi, & i. de
togis meis delano ubsque furrura.
Item, lego Ricardo Wyvill, de bonis meis, usque ad valorem c*. ultra
hoc quod antea legavi secundum dispositionem executorum meorum, pro
«reraembrancia.
Item, lego Domino Willielmo Blase unum ciphum argeateum cooper-
turn, & i. capam de serico.
Item, lego Domino Roberto Neuton, decano capells meffi, unum
librum vocatum Johaants de Abbalis VUta.
146 HISTORY OF THE
Item, lego Domino Willielmo atte Kirk, Domino Job anni Menston,
cuilibet illonim, unum librum Meditationum, secundum dispositionem
executonim meorum.
Item, lego Domino Johanni Foxholes i. librum vocatum Summa
Justitue, & i. Psalterium glosatum, i. ciphum de argento coopertum, &
de bonis meis usque ad valorem x/. pro remembrancia. Et Willielmo
Rossin unum ciphum de argento coopertum, usque ad valorem v. mar-
carum, pro remembrancia.
Item, Domino Johanni Menston, fratri Adae Neyland, Domino Jo-
hanni Thorp, & Waltero Wodhall, & Ricardo Leek, & cuilibet generoso
homini sive mulieri, existenti in servitio meo, in hospitio meo die passs
ultimo (exceptis prsenominatis) x\s.
Item, lego Willielmo Worth, xx*. Et Ricardo Walagre c*. Et Ro-
berto Holte xiii*. iwd. EtThomae Lound v marcas. Et Walcero Clerico
xU. Et Domino Johanni Thorp xU. Et Johanni Crosby unam togam
de laua absque fumira, & cs. Et Johanni Gillesland xU.
Item, Johanni Coke custodienti gardinum apud Fishide xxvis. vind.
Et Johanni Bliton xU.
Item, Johanni Plumpton, Johanni Vudy, et Ricardo Vasur, et Ni-
cbolao clericulo capellse, singulo eorumv marcas.
Item, Johanni Pocock seniori, & cuilibet valletto, commoranti in
servitio meo, in hospitio die passs ultimo, xxvi^. y'md. prseter hoc quod
specialiter praenominatis legavi.
Item, lego Willielmo Alauson, quondam commoranti mecum, xs,
£t Thomas Heuxman cs. Roberto Maryn xxs. Johanni Heuxham xxs.
£t Willielmo Pope xx«. Willielmo de Coquina xxs. Et Johanni Cha-
riot xiii«. ivd. Et Johanni Seland xi«.
Item, lego Johanni Gardiner apud Faxflete &c. vi^. viijd et ultra
hoc Roberto de Coquina xx^.
Item, lego haeredi meo, pro termino vitas suae, robam meam de scarleto
furratam cum meyniver, surcote overt, & coUobium cum barr. de ermyn,
& capic. furrat. & omnia principalia quae habui ex legatione domini
Patris mei (omnibus specialiter ante legatis exceptis.)
Item, lego dicto haeredi i. par pelvium coopertarum de argento, quas
emi Londoniae, cum armis meis quibus utor de novo, cum xii. discia qui
fuerunt domini Patris mei, cum armis suis, &c.
Item, lego Johannae Ducissae Eborum, uxori meae, i. firmaculum cum
bursa quae semper pendent ad camisiam meam cum cruce Domini, & fir-
maculo quae ipsamet michi dedit, & de bonis meis usque ad valorem
duarum milium librarum ad suam electionem, ita tamen quod non
1
FAMILY OF SCItOPE OF MASHAM. 147
acclamet ali<juale Jus de bonis meis, nee proprietatem, aut dimldiam vel
terliam partem bonorum meonim, set de legatis eontentfitur, ut oretenus
michi promUerit.
Item, lego Domina mere & Mairi unam crucem de auro, cum iv
perulU, Sb i. bJrell rotunda in pede, & i. par pater noster de gete, qute
quondam fuerunt Archiepiscopi Eborum avunculi mei, & i. par pater
□oster de auro quondam domini Pattis mei, cum i. crucedeCruce Domini
(videlicet) de Cruce de Gallewaye quns claudilur com iv, vices, & tres
libros in Gallicis, ad eiectioaem suam, exceptis superius legalis.
Item, volo quod solvantur Johanni de Ettoit xl marcie.
Item, lego fratri meo, Magislro Slephano le Scrop, Arcliidiacono
Richemundiie. ad valorem de xx/. de bonis meis, ad suam electionem.
Item, lej,i> Thomse Haxey clerico, & Thoma" Brounflete militi (vide-
licet) ulrique eorum, de bonis meis, ad valorem xx/.
Item, lego Willielmo Blase clerico, & Johanni Foxliols clerico.
utrique illotum xl. & Roberto Lane x marcas, pro labore suo quem
habebunt in executions Testamenti mei. Et, ad dictam Voluntalem
meam in prxmissis petticiendam, constituo principales cxecutores meos
prKfatos, fratrcm meum Magistrum Stephanum le Scrop Archidiaconum
Richmundia', Thoraam Haxey clericum, Thomam Brounflete militem,
Wiliielmum Blase clericum, Johannem Foxhols clericum, & ilobertum
Lane. Et supervisores constituo Uxorem meam, Dominam Matrem
meam, Dominum le Scrop fratrem meum, Galfridum le Scrop militem,
& Ricardum Norton.
In quorum omnium & istius ultimo Voluntatis mea: Testimonium,
prfcsenti Testamento meo sigillum meum apposui. Datum vicesimo
tertio die Juuii, Anno Domini M.CCCC.XV. Anno Regni Regis HenrJci
Quint i post Conquestum tertio.
COPY OF THE WILL OF STEPHEN LE SCROPE, I
YOUNGER SON OF SIBPSEN SECOND LORD BCHOPE OP HASHAU, DATED
23 AUGUST, 141B.
In dei nomine Amen. Ego Stephanus Lescrop Archidiaconua Kiche-
mund in ecclesia Ebor* ac utriusque juris inceptoi, compos mentis et
boue memorie xxiii"" die menais August! anno Domini m°" cccc"" xviji
condo teslamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis lego et com-
mendo animam meam Deo omnipotenti, beale Marie matri ejus, beato
Petro et beato Will'o et omnibus Sanctis, et corpus meum ad sepeliendum
in capella sancti Stephani in ecclesia Cathedrali beali Petri Ebor'juxta
domiuum meum Acchiepiscopum Ebor' qui in vita sua mauus porrexit
11 2
1*8 HISTORY OF THE
adjutrices, quern in cceIi» Jam exoro ut pro me fundnt preces. Sed &c.
I i Item lego tabule summi altaris ecclesie beati Petri Ebor' de novo coa-
; struend' meum magnum jocale ordinal' pro corpora Cristi et iii chargeours
de ai^nto de optimis vasis meis et unum crucifixum de auro et unum
integrum vestimenlum de rubeo panno auri cum duabus capts de eadem
lecta &c. Item lego fabrice ecclesie predicte xx li. Item lego domioe
Matri mee unum ciphum aureum coopertum cum scriptura in cooper-:
torio " Good zere." Item lego Will'o fratri meo xii discos ai^enteos de
optimis et xii saucers argenteos de optimis. Item lego Matilde sorori
; mee x marcas et i ciphum argenteum et coopertorium cum scHptura
" Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini," et i tabellare de evore in ii foliis
ligat' cum argento. Item lego aule anounciacionis beate Marie Can-
] tabr' in qua habitavi meum Catbolicoa et i altum cipKum cum longo
i, ' pede ex argento deaurat' et coopert' et signal' cum zuynlevys. Item
lego Briano de Plumton x li et i cipbum argenleum coopert' cum annis
Yvonis Souche in summo &c. Item l^o domine Alicie nuper uxori
domini Will'i Plumton militis unum chales cuppe cum longo pede de
argento deaurat' & coopert' cum i knop in summitate. Item l^o
Elizabeth sorori mee uxori domini Johannis fratris mei ii ciphos deau-
ratos et coopertos de una secta et vi chales-cuppia cum knopis de azure.
Item lego Elizabeth Frevyll vi discos et vi saucers ai^enteos de annis
meis propriis et x li. ad maritagium suum &c. Hiis testibus Magistro
! Will'o Lescrop fratre meo, Briano Plumpton, Will'o Normanvylle Sec.
i Item l^o Ricardo Plumpton i par oracionum de auro.
Probat' vij' die Septembr' mccccxvih.
■. ABSTRACT OP THE INQUISITION AFTER THE DEATH OP MARGARET WIDOW
OP STEPHEN SECOND LORD SCBOFE OP MASHAU, 1 HEN. VI. 1423.
IsQ. apud CastTum lincola' die Lune in crastino Claus. Pasche
; 1 Hen. VI. coram Ricardo Denton eschaetore Regis in com. Lin-
' coin'. " Dicunt quod Johannes Alburg feofavit Dominum Galfridum
J [ le Scrope militem et heredes de corpore auo maner' de Carleton in
1 Kesteven in com. Lincoln, cum advocacione ejusdem ville et maner' de
fiemolbye in Bemolby Waltbam et Wathe et qui Galfridus de tali statu
I I obiit aeisltus et de ipso Galfrido descendebaut maneria predicta Henrico
t I le Scrope militi filio et heredi predict! Galfridi et de ipso Henrico descen-
I I debaiit Stephano le Scrope militi filio et heredi predicti Henrici qui
' ' Stephanus cepit in uxorem Margaretam de quo eadem maneria descen*
I debant Henrico le Scrope filio et heredi dicti Stephani qui quidem Hen-
FAMILY OF SCnoPF, OF MASIIAM. 149
ricus postea dorciinum Heoricum nuper R«gem Anglie patrem dicti
domini Regis nunc et obiit sine herede de corpore, et premissa
descenJebant Galfrido le Scrope militi fralri et heredi predict! Henrici
&c, ({ui etiam obiit sine herede de corpora suo, et de ipso Galfrido descen-
debant premissa Stephano Scrope clerico fralri et heredi predicti Gal-
fridi &c. (|ui obiit sine herede, et de ipso Stephano deacendebant Johanni
le Scrop Ch'r fratri et heredi predicti Stephani cleiici filii Stephani &c.
et Mar^reta obiit 29 Maii ultimo. £t ilicnnt quod dominus Johannes le
Scrope est filius et heres propintjuior ejusdem Margarete, et est etatis
WHIT OF HENRY VI. RESTORING TO SIR JOHN SCROPB, AFTERWARDS FOURTH
LORD SCROPE OF MASUAM, THB DOWER OF UARGEKY HIS MOTHER,
2 HEN. VI.
Pro Johanne le Serop' Ch'r. Rex Balliris vitle de Kingeston super
Hull salutem. Cum per quandam inquisition em coram Ricardo Went-
worth captam sit compertum quod Margeria que fuil uxor Stephani le
Scrop' Chivaler defuncta tenuit die quo obiit in dotem post mortem pre-
dict! Stephani quondam viri sni de hereditate Johannis le Scrop Chivaler,
fratris et heredis Stephani le Scrop clerici, fratris et heredis Galfridi le
Scrop militis, fratris et heredis Henrici le Scrop mililis, tilii et heredis
predicti Stephani le Scrop Chivaler, inter alia, viginti libras percipiend'
annuatim de Burgensibus ville predicte &c. Et quia vicesimo die
Decembria ultimo preteitto captis homi^io et lidelitate ipsius Johaunis
nobis pro omnibus terris que prefata Margeria tenuit in dotem post mor-
tem ejusdem Stephani quondam viri sui de hereditate predict! Johannia
die quo obiit debitis, eidem Johanni terras Sec, reddidimus &c. Glaus.
2 Hen. VI. m. 11.
GRANT OP HSNRY VI. IN 1 HEN. VI. TO SIR JOHN SCROPE, AFTERWARDS
FOURTH LORD SCROPB OF MASHAM, OF THE LANDS FORFEITED BY
HENRY THIRD LORD SCROPE.
Rex Ac. Sciatis quod de gratia nostra special! et de assensu magni
concilii nostii concessimus dilecto et fideli nostro Johanni Lescrop Ch'r
omnes firmas &c. que nuper fuerunt Henrici domin! Lescrop qui erga
carissimum Dominum et Patrem nostrum Regem defunctum forisi'ecit,
et que per rorisfacturam predicti Henrici Lescrop ad miuius nostras
deveuerunt &c. Rol. Fin. 2 Hen. VI. m. G.
1
160 HISTORY OF THE
ABSTRACT OF AN INQUISITION TAKEN ON THE 25 APRIL 16 HEN. VI. 1437,
RELATIVE TO THE CLAIM OP SIR JOHN SCROPE, FOURTH LORD SCROPE
OF MASHAM, TO CERTAIN LANDS.
Inq, capta apud Northallerton in com. Ebonim coram Christoforo
Coniers escaetore Ebonim 25 Aprilis, 16 Hen. VI. '^ Juratores dicunt
super sacramentum suum quod Henricus nuper dominus le Scrope de
Massham de Faxflete in com. Ebor' Ch'r defunctus qui erga dominum
Henricum nuper Regem Anglie quintum post conquestum Angiie patrem
domini Regis nunc, vicesimo die Julii anno regni ejusdem nuper Regis
tercio >de alta prodicione forisfecit, et inde quinto die Augusti eodem
anno tertio coram Thoma nuper Duce Clarencie et aliis dominis paribus
ipsius Henrici le Scrop per ipsum nuper Ducem sibi vocatis virtute
cujusdam Commissionis predicti nuper Regis eidem nuper Duci directe
convictus fuit et morti adjudicatus, fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de
feodo simplici dicto quinto die Augusti ac die et tempore forisfacture sue
predicte de manerio de Massham, &c. £t dicunt quod Johannes Lescrop
miles vicesimo quarto die Julii anno regni dicti Regis nunc tertio in
omnia predicta maneria intravit clamando et supponendo parcellas eo-
rundem maneriorum &c. sibi fore talliatas per tres cartas fabricatas sub
nomine Johannis Alburgh cuidam Gralfrido Lescrop militi antecessori
ipsius Johannis Lescrop et heredibus de corpore ipsius Galfridi procreatis
factas, Id Ed. IIL que descendebant Henrico le Scrope militi filio et
heredi predicti Galfridi.'* Esch. 16 Hen. VL No. 59.
ABSTRACT OF THE WILL OF JOHN SCROPE ESQ. SON AND HEIR APPARENT
OF JOHN FOURTH LORD SCROPE OF MASHAM, DATED 17 SEPTEMBER, 1452.*
John le Scrop Esquire, son and heir of John Lord le Scrop, Sunday
17th September 1452. My body to be buried in the cathedral church
of St. Peter of York, according to the disposition of my father. — ^To the
parish church of Kilmington a palfrey as a mortuary — ^To Lord Dacre —
To Margaret my wife — To John my father — To Lady le Scrop — ^To
Thomas my brother—- To Magistrix my sister. — I constitute John Lord
Scrope my father, and Elizabeth le Scrop my mother, and Lord Thomas
Dacre, and Philippa de Dacre, and Margaret my wife, my executors.
' From a Register of Miscellaneous Wilb marked D. b. in the Register Office
York, f. 273. and another transcript
FAMILY OF SCHOl'E (IF MASHAM. 161
ABSTRACTS OF INQUISITIONS TAKEN AFTBR THE DEATH OF JOHN, FOltRTH
LORD SCROPB OF MASHAH, 34 HEN. VI. 1456.
JuRATORES dicunt qiiod Johannes Lescrop de Mashain miles tenuit
die quo obiit conjiiiiclim cum Elizabeth' uxore sua adhuc; superstite
maneria de Magua Bowdon etc. Et dicunt quod dictus Johannes
Lescrop obiit quinto decimo die Novembris et quod Thomas Lescrop est
filiiis & hsres ejusdeni Johannis propinquior & est etatis 26 annorutn
& ampliiis. Esc. 34 Hen. VI, No. 14.
lnq< apud Grantham in com. Line. 34 Hen, VI. coram Will'mo
Grymesby escaetore com. Line. " Juratores dicunt quod Johannes le
Scrope de Mitsham miles teouit manerium de Bernolby conjunctim cum
Elizabetha uxore suo nunc superstite et tenuit manerium de Carleton et
cum advocacione ecclesie. El Carleton exlenditur et tenetur de Ri-
cardo Duce Eborum per servicium unius sagitte barbate solvend' ad
festum Natalie Domini, et predictus Johannes obiit 13 Novembris ultimo
preterito, et quod Thomas le Scrope Alius ejus est heres ejus propinquior
et etatis 2
THE W[LL OP JOHN FOURTH LORD fiCROPE OF MASHAM,
DATED I JULY 29 HEN. VI. U51.' CODICIL DATED 18 MARCH 1453.
JOHH ScROPE, Knight, Lord of Upsal, 1st July 29 Hen. VI. 1451.^
My body to be buried in a new tomb made for me and Lady Elizabeth
my wife, in the Chapel of St, Stephen, commonly called Scrope 's Chapel,
within the Cathedral Church of St. Peter at York. I desire that at my
funeral my corpse be carried by my sons and servants, being then at my
house, to the said cliapel, twenty-four poor men clothed in white gowns
and hoods, each of them having a new set of wooden beads, walking
before it ; and I will that these poor men stand, sit, or kneel in the aisle
before the entrance to that chapel, saying their prayers, as well at the
dirige as at the mass, and that each of them receive \}' for his pains.
Also I will that my corpse, thus brought into that chapel, be laid upon
that tomb, and covered with a black woollen cloth, having a large cross
of white linen thereon ; also that two fair candlesticks of silver gUt,
with my arms upon them, which I have lately given to the high altar,
be placed upon my tomb, each of ihem having a taper of four pounds
weight of wax burning during the whole time of my exequies. To the
altar in the chapel of St. Mary at York a jewel, with a bone of St. Mar-
' From Dugdale's Baronage, i. p. 660.
' 1441 in a copy in a Regialec of Miscellaneous Wills, marked D. b. in the
k-
152 HISTORY OF THE
garet, and x\$, for ringing their bells at my funeral. To Elizabeth my
wife, all the furniture in my mansion house at York. To Eleanor my
daughter.' — I appoint Elizabeth my wife, John my son and heir, Thomas
my son. Master William le Scrope my brother, and Sir William Caleys
Rector of Aynderby,' and William Neusom,' my executors.
Codicil, dated March 18, 1453. — ^To Alianore my daughter, during
my own life, xx marks, and after my decease xl marks, to be paid out of
my manor of Driffield. — To John, son and heir of Henry Lord Scrope of
Bolton, one great broach of gold, of two angels fashioned like a man's
heart. — And whereas John my son, whom I appointed in my Will to be
one of my executors, has departed this life, I appoint in his stead Sir
John Bermiugham, Treasurer of .York Minster, and Master John Mar-
shall, Residentiary, whom I will be joined to my other executors. — Also
I will that if before my death Thomas my son marry the daughter of
the Lord Greystock, that then my exequies shall be performed in all
points with as much solemnity as my Testament expresseth — The marriage
of Darcy, son of my daughter Eleanor.' — To Thomas, my said son, my
parliament robe. — ^To Collin, my servant, x/. for his part, and Robert
Courtby, my senant, v/. for his part thereof.
ABSTRACT OF THE CHARTER BY WHICH THOMAS FIFTH LORD SCROPE OF
MASHAM FOUNDED A CHANTRY IN 36 HEN. VI. 1457-8.
Whereas King Henry the Sixth, by letter bearing date at West-
minster 36th of his reign (1457-8), granted licence to Thomas le Scrope
of Masham, Knight, to found a perpetual chantry of two chaplains at the
altar of St. Stephen in the cathedral church of Saint Peter ; the said
Lord Thomas founded the said chantry, and constituted William Brew-
ster and William Owthwayth priest, chaplains of the chantry for the
term of their lives to pray for the good estate of Elizabeth his mother, of
himself, and of Elizabeth his wife, and of Master William le Scrope his
uncle, and of all his successors, during their lives, and for their souls
after their deaths; and for the souls of John late Lord Scrope his father,
of John le Scrop his elder brother. Moreover for the souls of Stephen late
Lord Scrope and of Margery le Scrope his late consort, and of Richard
le Scrope formerly Archbishop of York, and of master Stephen le Scrope
late Archdeacon of Richmond, his uncles, and of other his ancestors and
their children whose bodies lie buried in the chapel of St. Stephen, and
for the souls of all the faithful deceased.
' York Register.
f
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 153
ABSTRACT OF THE WILL OF ELIZABETH LADY BCROPE OF MABHAM, WIDOW OP
THOMAS SIXTH LORD SCBOFB OP MABHAH, DATED G MARCH, S HEN. VIII.
1SI4.
Elizabeth Lady Scrop of Upsale and Massam wedow— 6 Mar.
S Hen. Vlli.— To be buried in the Black Friers in London, beside ray
lorde my husbonde Thomas late Lord Scrop of Upsaie aDd iVlassam — if
1 cannot be carried unserid conveuyenlly unto the said Friers, my body
to be buried unserid where I shall die. — To the high aulter there xxs.
— if I be buried at the said Friers, v trymallis of massis be song there
for my soule, my said lord my husbondis soule, for the soule of Alls his
doughter and mine, for Sir Henry Wenlworthis soule and for the soule
of my lorde my father John Mar(|uesB Mountague and of the Lady
Isabel, his wife, my mother — My executors to laie over my grave a stone
with iij ymages, my said husbonde, my^lf and my said doughter — A
tombc to be made over Sir Henry Wentworth Knt. my late husbond
lying buried in Newsome Abbey co. Lincoln — A lombe to be made
over ray said father and mother, lying buried in Bursara Abbey, Berks.
— To the Crossid Friers, London, \l. — To Sir John Benson, one of my
chaplains, to sing for me, x marks, — To Sir Henry Trewman, another
of my chaplains, ditto. — To the said priour of Crnssid Friers, my beadis,
&c. — ^To Kaiherine Polen, my gentilworaan, sx/. — Mary Sulyard, ditto
ditto. — To Mrs. Margret Bygot x marcs. — To Kaiherine Clyfton, my
servant, xx marcs. — To Dorothe Danby xx marcs. — To Dame Mai^ret
Scrop, nune of the house of Barkyng, gilt cup &c.^Mary, doughter in
base unto Thomas Grey Marques Dorset, my bed &c. — Lady Lucy my
Ruster, my boke that is a premer and a sawter, which boke I had of the
gyfte of the most excellent princes King Henry Vllth's mother, on
condicion that she do cawse my nece Lucie her doughler to be put in
indeferent keping that she maie be brought forthe vertuously and never
disBgre unto the mariage to be had betwene hir and John Culte the
Sonne of Sir John Cutte, Knt. for and she do disagre then hir parte is
small or none of my londs&c. because of the bargaine made betwene
the said Sir John Cutte and me, as by itidcnlures dothe apeare I
make executors Sir John Cutte, Km, my nece Lucye Browne, William
Bowry, I'riour of the Holy Crossid Friers, London, Edward Sulyard Esq.
and John Palesshall, Gent. — ^overseer Thomas Grey, Marquess Dor-
set.— Whereas 1 have enfeoffed eerten parsons of all my lends &c. co.
Cambridge to my use for life, after my decease to the payment of my
dettis, and then lo the uses specified in a pair of indentures dated
13 September, 5 Hen. Vlll. between me of the one part and Sir John
Cutte of the other part.— The chauntries in Borow, co. Cambridge, to be
Tot. II. X
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154 HISTORY OF THE
at the disposal of my iij chaplains, at their next advoidance. — Codicil
dated 13 July, 9 Hen. VIII. appointing nevewe, Sir William Fitzwilliam,
executor in room of Edward Sulyarde, deceased.
Proved 9th December, 1521, by Lucie Browne, alias Cutte, executrix.
BSTRACT OP THE WILL OP RALPH EIGHTH LORD SCROPE OP MASHAM,
DATED 6 AUGUST 1515.
Ralph Lord Scrop of Upsal, 6 August 1515. I will that my
feoffees of my manors of &c. stand seised of the same to the use of me
the said Lord Scrope and Eleanore my wife for life ; and if we die with-
out issue of our bodies, to remain to Geoffrey Scrope, Clerk, my brother,
for life, remainder to my right heirs for ever. I will that all my other
manors remain, after the death of me and my said brother Geoffrey, to
my right heirs. I appoint Eleanor my wife sole Executrix.
Proved 18 March 1515-6.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION TO WILLUM LE SCROPE, ARCHDEACON OP DUR-
HAM, YOUNGER SON OP STEPHEN SECOND LORD SCROPE OP MASHAM,
% IN ST. ST£PHEN'*S CHAPEL IN YORK CATHEDRAL.
He was buried beneath a blue stone with the escocheon of Azure, a
bend Or, a file of three points Argent at each comer ; and on a square
brass plate was this inscription :
?^u jattt fRaf miXVn It dcrope
Hxi^itimonva Sunelm et J&tJ^Aentiariust
in tccVin Colltjttatt)^ VU ^of^'in Kthnlat
I et ^^ nSiUrilri il^pon qui obitt
I ! xii'' nit mtnn' fBUii an*o tl'ni fBUccdiii
cniva an'e p*p*"^ "titva.
> t In York Minster.^
ft
The East window of the South transept of the quire contains five lights :
the top thereof is of balled glass, each ball divided into eight parts.
' Excepting where other authorities are cited, from a MS. in the College of
Arms, entitled •* Dugdale's Yorkshire Arms,*' and the Collection therein of " Arms,
epitaphs, and inscriptions in churches and houses in that county, made by Roger
Dodsworth between 1618 and 1629," and from a collection made by Glover, So-
merset Herald, at the Visitation of York, in 1586, in the Harleian MS. 1394.
* From Torre's MS description of York Minster in the oflSce of the Register
of the Dean and Chapter at York.
NOTICES OF ARMS OF SCROPE OF MASHAM, AND OF
THEIR ALLIANCES.'
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 155
The fire ^reat lights are adorned thus with escocheons: —
Ist. Azure, a bend Or, a file of three points Argent [Scrofe or
Masham]. impaling Quarterly Isl and 4th Azure, two chevronels Or,
[Ciiaworth] : 2nd and 3d, Argent, an inescocheon within an orle of
cinquefoilles Sable [Caltoft.]
3nd. Azure, a bend Or, a file of three poijits Argent within a bordure
compony Or and Gules.
3rd. A large image of an Archbishop robed Gules, pale and mitre
Or, crosier Or; beneath him the image of a Monk kneeling, habited
Azure and Argent, having an escroll in his hands.
4th. Argent, on a bend Sable three mullets Or [query Monynoton.]
5th. Azure, a bend Or, a label of three points Argent [Scrope of
Hashah.]
On the north side of the arch leading fronn the quire into the South
transept is a shield with these arms sculptured,
A bend with a label of three points, within a bordure semce of
initresi above the shield a mitred head [Richard Archbishop of
York.]
In the fiHh window of the North aisle of the quite are 6ve escocheons
in the upper tracery :
1, 2 and 3. Azure, a bend Or. 4. Azure, a bend Or, a label of three
points. 5, Azure, a bend Or. These are now destroyed, but the bor-
dure running down the great lights is formed of squares having alter-
nately the letter 3&, the letter ^, and a bar of Gold in an Azure field.
The only escocheon remaining is at the foot of the centre light, viz. Or,
a lion rampant Azure, The glass in this window is of older date than
that in any other part of the quire, and from the initial letters would
appear to have been placed there by Archbishop Scrope.
In the East window of the North transept of the quire were these
escocheons,
1st. At the top of all. Azure, a bend Or, a label of three points
[Scrope of Masram.]
2nd, Quarterlv, 1st and 4th Sable, three bezants, 3nd and 3rd Or,
over the whole shield a label of three points.
3rd. Sable, a chevron between three lions rampant Argent.
4th, Azure, a cinquefoil between an orle of eight crosslets Or.
[Umfrevillb.]
5th. Or, a fess dancette Sable [Vavasour.]
6th. Arfent, a lion rampant Sable, on its breast a bezant, [query
Stafleto».]
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156 HISTORY OF THE
7th. Barruly Argent and Gules, on a canton Sable, a cross moline Or
[query Etton.]
8th. Argent, a maunch Sable [Hastings.]
These no longer exist.
In the third window in the East aisle of the North transept,
ScROPE OF Ma SHAM withiu a bordure gobony Or and Gules.
In Rotherham Churchy co. York.
Gules, six martlets Argent [Clarell], impaling Scrope of
Mash AM, with an annulet on the bend.
In Rawmarsh Churchy co, York.
Quarterly f 1 and 4, Lozengy Argent and Gules, a mullet for difference
[FiTz William.]
2 and 3. Quarterly^ 1st and 4th Gules, five martlets Argent [Clarell.]
2nd and drd, Scrope op Masham.
In Catterick Churchy co* York.
Scrope of Masham.
On a bend three mascles [Pert.]
Scrope of Masham, impaling on a bend three mascles [Pert.]
In Lynby Church, co, NoUs»^
In the south quire is the tomb of Sir Nicholas Strelley, who married
Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Ralph Fitz Randolf, by Eli-
zabeth, sister and coheiress of Geoffrey Lord Scrope of Masham, with
these arms :
On the North side of the tomb,
Paly of six, with a roundell, [Strellet op Lykbt,] impaling a dra-
gon erect [Hunt.]
Paly of six [Strelley of Strellet.]
On the South side,
1. Strelley, impaling Argent on a chevron Sable, three escallops
Or [Merino.]
2. A bend and a label of three points, [Scrope of Masham,] tm-
paUngy Quarterly, Ist. a saltire, with a label gobonne; 2nd, three lozenges
in fess ; drd, an eagle displayed ; 4th, a saltire engrailed [Neville
Marquis Montague.]
' Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire.
FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM. 157
3. A bend [Scrope of Bolton], quartering a saltier engrailed [Tip-
toft] ; on an escocheon of pretence, a bend and a label of three points
[Scrope of Masham.]
4. Strellet, with a roundel, impaling Quarterly, 1st and 4th, a chief
indented [Fitz Randolf]; 2nd and 8rd, a bend and a label of three
points [Scrope of Masham.]
In Beverley Churchy co> York.
Scrope of Masham, within a bordure Gules.
In Richmond Church.
Scrope of Bolton quartering Tiptoft.
Two other shields touching each other : the one Qn the dexter being
Vaire a fess Gules [M arm ion], the other on the sinister, Scrope of
Masham.
In the Church of Thirske^ co, York.
Scrope of Masham, impaling Gretstoke.
In the Churches of St. Martinis, Coney^street, York ; of St. Dennis,
Walm-gate, York ; and of St. Michael, Micklegate, York ; in Leeds
Church ; in AU Saints, Pontefract ; in Arkesey Church ; in Well Church,
and in Thrihergh Church, in the county of York, are the arms of
Scrope of Masham.
In Langar Church, co. Nottingham,
In glass.
Scrope of Masham, impaling Quarterly 1 and 4 two chevronels
[Chaworth] ; 2 and 8. an escutcheon within an orle of cinquefoils
[Caltoft] ; impaling Argent, seven mascles Gules [Braybroke.]
In the Church of Fishtoft, co» Lincoln.^
In the chancel, inter alia.
Or, on a fess Gules three plates [Huntingfield.]
Sable, a cross engrailed Argent (query Or) [Ufford.]
Scrope of Masham.
In the Prebendal Church of Hather, co. Lincoln,*
In the window.
Azure, a bend Or, a label of three points ; the first and third point
Gules, the centre one Argent.
Azure, a bend Or, a label of three points Ermine, apparently for
*• Henrt le Scrope Cheyaler."
> Harleian MS. 6829, f. 207. ' Harleian MS. 6829.
158 FAMILY OF SCROPE OF MASHAM,
In another window,
'* Orate pro a'i'a Galfr'i le Scrop Prebendarii hujus Ecclesie et pro
a'i'a Beatricis Leoutrell sororis ejus."
In Carlton Churchy co. Lincoln.^
In the window,
The effigy of a Knight kneeling, with the arms of Scrope of
Masham on his breast.
In Canterbury Cathedral^
Round the cornice of the canopy of the monument of Henry the Fourth
and Joane his Queen, inter aUa,
ScROPE OF Bolton.
In the cloisters,
Azure, a bend Or^ a label of three points Gules.
In the seventeenth compartment of the cloisters,
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Azure, a bend Or, a label of three points
Chiles [Scrope.]
2nd and drd. Or, three piles Azure [Brtak.] Probably for Henry,
THIRD Lord Scrope of Masham, during his father's lifetime, and
Philippa Brtan his first wife.
In the twenty-first and twenty-second compartment,
Azure, on a bend Or, a lion passant Sable. Probably for Henrt,
THIRD Lord Scrope of Masham. See his Will, page 142.
In the twenty-third compartment,
^ Azure, a bend Or, impaling Gules three lions passant gardant in pale
Or, a bordure Argent [Henry third Lord Scrope of Masham,
and Joan Holland Duchess of York, his second wife.]
In the body of the church.
On the South aisle, these four Barons in their Parliament robes,'
" Cromwell, Tiptoft, Hungerford, and L. Scrope, garnished about with
crabs Or. Arms, — Azure, a bend Or, a label of three points Argent."
1 Harleian MS. 6829, f. 316.
» Willement's Heraldic Notices of Canterbury Cathedral.
* Ibid, from Memoranda by R. Scarlett in 1599, in the Harleian MS. 1366.
ADDENDA
TO THE HISTORY AND PEDIGREE OF SCROPE.
Page 11. Stephen le Scrope, Rector of Marske, third son of Sir
William Scrope, appears to have been the Stephen le Scrope who suc-
ceeded as Prebendary of Welton Paynshall, in the diocese of Lincoln,
in 1322, and died in 1327.'
P. 26. It ought to have been said, that Richard first Lord Scrops
OF Bolton was retained to serve John of Gant Duke of Lancaster, for
life, as "^ell in time of peace as in war, between the 3rd and 7th Ric. II.'
P.40. Sir William Scrope, K.G. Earl of Wiltshire. This
eminent person was in the expedition under Lord Neville which arrived
at Bordeaux on the 8th September 1378, for the relief of Mortain, then
invested by the French.' After compelling the enemy to raise the siege
of that place, and taking various castles, Neville's army returned to
Bordeaux, from which he despatched Sir William Elmham, Seneschal of
Landes, and Sir William Scrope, with two or three hundred lances, and
the same number of archers, to attack the garrison of Besac, who were
routed, after a gallant conflict, on the 31st October in that year.^
According to the '^ Chronicle of London," the Earl of Wiltshire was
beheaded on the 30th July 1399. " And the Duke of Hereford with
" his lordes and gentiles comen to the castell of Bristoll, and there they
token S*^ William Scrop thanne Erie of Wyltshire and Tresorer of
Engelond, S*^ Herry Grene, S*" John Busshy, and Perkyn of Lee ; and
" on the xxx^ day of Juyll they were beheded as for tray tours." pp. 84, 85.
P. 60. RaIph Scrope, third son of Henrt Lord Scrope of
Bolton, appears to have been installed as Prebendary of North Kelsey,
in the diocese of Lincoln, on the 3rd May 1477, and was in the next
year made Prebendary of Aylesbury.*
In p. 60, Margaret, daughter of Henrt fourth Baron Scrope
OF Bolton, is said to have married to her first husband Ples-
sington. It appears from Wright's History of Rutlandshire, p. 29, that
the person alluded to was William Plessington, Esquire, son of Sir
Henry Plessington, and that he died s. p. about the 27th Hen. VI.
> Willis's Survey of Cathedrals, vol. iii. p. 260.
' Registram Johannis Ducis Lancastriae.
» Deposition of Sir Richard Tempest, p. 199, and Fioissart par Buchon, vii.
119 — 121. * Froissart par Buchon, vii. 136—138.
^ Willis's Survey of Cathedrals, iii. 229.
«
160 ADDENDA.
It fhoold have been stated in the Pedigree of Scrope of Bolton, in
page 62, that Sir William Evre had two daughters by Katherine Bowes ;
namely, Margaret and Elizabeth. Margaret married Tliomas Howard,
fifth son of Lord William Howard of Naworth, son of Hiomas Doke
of Norfolk. Hie said Hiomas Howard was slain at Persebridge in
1642, in the royal army, and left issue two daughters and coheirs, one
of whom married Fetherston, and the other Peacock,
Merchant, and Alderman of London. Elizabeth Erre, the second
daughter of Sir William Ene and Katherine Bowes, married Thomas
Leighton, a younger son of Leigfaion of Feckenham in Worcestenhire.
— -MSS. in the College of Anns marked C 41, and Vincent 20, f. 55.
The following pedigree occurs in ^ Vincent's Essex,** f. 105, as also
in '' Vincent's London," p. 484, in the College of Arms, but the Ridiard
Scrope there mentioned has not been identified. It would appear firom
the arms that he was descended from the Lords Scrope of Bolton, after
the match with the heiress of Lord Scrope of Masham ; but it is certain
that the only issue of that marriage died infants. Sir Richard Scrope,
second son of Henry fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton, by Elizabeth daugh-
ter of John fourth Lord Scrope of Masham, married Eleanor Waahboume,
and had a daughter and coheir, Frances,' of whom nothing is known ;
but the dates and the name of her mother do not admit <^ her being
the Frances Scrope mentioned in this pedigree.
James Brtc£«
J
Makokry, dan. and beir.==RoBsmT Am tdas, of Loodoo,
GoUsmitli.
EuzABETH, dau. and heir.r=RicBABi> Sceops.
I
FniNCES, dau. and heir.=MARTiN Bowes, 2nd son n585) of Sir Martin Boivet, Alder-
I man of Lonaon, by Cecilia Eliot.'
Martin Bowes, s. and h. Jocosa. Mart.
of the county of Essex. AiIna. Ellbn.
Arms. — Quarterly of eight : 1. Bowes, £. Scrope of Bdton, 8. Tip-
toft, 4. Scrope of Masham, 5. Amydas, 6. Bryce, 7. A chevron engrailed
^ See page 60 antea.
In Vincent's MS. n® 119, f. 485, her name is said to be Cattelyriy and she is
described as first wife of Sir Martin Bowes, who was Lord Mayor of London
1546, and died 1566.
between three mascles ; on the chevron a crescent for difference ;
8. Three rams' heads erased, withiD a bordure besant^e.
P. 109, line 28. The words "who \
I8G," should be deleted.
: of the Depoaents i
P. 122. Richard Archbishop of York. Early in 1886 this
prelate was appointed Prebendary of Miltou in the diocese of Lincoln,
which he resigned on becoming Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in Au-
gust in that year.' The fate of Archbishop Scrope, as a victim to his zeal
for his legitimate Sovereign, is thus alluded to in the proclamation of Ed-
ward the Fourth in April 1471, immediately after the battle of Barnet.
After adducing the success which attended the bouse of York on that
occasion, as evidence of the justice of his cause, the King says, " Yet
" natheles no consideraci'n had to the p'misses nother to thauctorite
" of that holy fader Richard Scrope somtyme Archbisshop' of Vorke
" which' for the right and title of our' auncestrie whos estate we nowe
" bere and have died and suffred dcth" and martyrdom'.'"
' WilUs's Sjirvey of Calhedrals, iii. 220.
* Rot-Claus. 11 Edw. IV. m. S6 d. printed in the Appendix, No.V. lo ihe
Reports of the Lordi' Committees on the d%ni^ of a Peer of die realm.
NOTICES
OP THE
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF SIR RICHARD SCROPE,
WITH
ABSTRACTS OP THEIR DEPOSITIONS.
VOL. II.
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN ON THE 16"^ JUNE, 9 RIG. 11. 1386,
AT THE PALACE OF JOHN OF GANT, KING OF CASTILE
AND LEON, IN THE FRIARS CARMELITES AT PLY-
MOUTH, BY LORD FITZ WALTER, SIR JOHN MARMION,
AND SIR JOHN KENTWODE, THE COMMISSIONERS
APPOINTED BY THE CONSTABLE
The greater part, if not all, of the DeponentB on this occasion,
served in the army with which John of Gant, Duke of Lancaster
and King of Castile, was about to go to Spain, with the view of
recovering that kingdom, which he claimed in right of his consort.
Plymouth was the place of rendezvousj and the army embarked
from thence ; but Froissart erroneously says, that the expediticm
sailed from Bristol early in May 1386.' The Depositions, however,
as well as various documents printed in the " Fudera,"^ prove
that he was mistaken ; for it is certain that the King of Castile
did not leave Plymouth until after the 20th of June 1386.*
JOHN OF GANT, DUKE OF LANCASTER, KING J
OF CASTILE AND LEON. This distinguished personage was t
the fourth son of King Edward the Third by Philippa of Hain-
ault. He was bom in 1340 at Gant in Flanders, and was usually
styled " John of Gant." In 134*2 he was created Ear! of Rich-
mond; and having on the 19lh May 1359, married Blanch daugh-
ter and coheiress of Henry Plantagenet Duke of Lancaster, he
was in November 1362, soon after the decease of hisi father-in-
law, raised to that dukedom. The Duchess Blanch died in 1369,
and in 1372 Lancaster married Constance, the eldest daughter and
coheiress of Peter King of Castile and Leon, and assumed the title
of King of Castile and Leon in her right- In 1386, he endea-
voured to obtain possession of that kingdom by invading it with a
formidable army, and his consort accompanied him on the occasion.*
' Froissan par Buchon, lome x. chap, xxxii.
■ See tome iii. p' iii. pp. 195. 198. 204.
' Letters patent nere issued by Lancaster, dated at the Ptiorjr of Plympton, on
the 30th June 1386. F(edera,iii. p* iii. p. 204.
• Froissart, tome x. p. 123.
1
164 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
joHK 07 Gaiit. He however relinquished his pretensions a few years afterwards,
in consequence of the marriage of Katherine his only daughter
by Constance, to Henry Prince of Asturias, and the settlement of
the Spanish crown on their issue. John of Gant was subsequently
created Duke of Acquitaine ; and on the Duchess Constance's
death he married his mistress, Katherine daughter of Sir Payne
Roet and widow of Sir Hugh Swynford, by whom he had had
a large family, who were legitimated by act of Parliament. The
Duke of Lancaster and Acquitaine died on the 3rd February
1398-9, at the Bishop of Ely^s palace in Holbom, aged about
fifty-nine, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. Most of the
Duke's military exploits will be noticed in the brief account of
the various battles alluded to by the Deponents at the end of
this volume. His deposition was as follows: —
" John, by the grace of God, King op Castile and Leon, Dukb
OF Lancaster, being prayed, and, according to the Law of Arms,
required, by the proctor of Sir Richard le Scrope, to testify the
truth between the said Sir Richard and Sir Robert Grosvenor in a
controversy between them concerning the arms * Azure, a bend
Or,** do verily testify, that at the time when We were armed in
battles and other journeys * in divers countries. We have seen and
known that the said Sir Richard hath borne his arms ^ Azure, a
bend Or ;'* and that many of his name and lineage have borne the
same arms, with differences as branches of the same name and
arms, on banner, pennon, and coat armour; and that We have
heard from many noble and valiant men, since deceased, that the
said arms were of right the arms of his ancestors and himself at
the time of the Conquest and since. And, moreover, We say
' In the original '' journ^e.'' This word is generally iised to describe an action
with the enemy in the field, of rather less importance than a general battle. It has
been anglicized by " journey." William of Worcester, speaking of the battle of
St. Alban's in 1455, says, *^ All the lords that died at the journey are buried at
St. AlbanV Paston Letters, i. 109. — ''Anno 12 Hen. VI. This same yere
aboughte Whitsontyd, the Jx)llardes of Prage were distroyd, for at Xoojomeyt there
were sclayn of them mo thanne xx** M* with there cheveteynes." — Chronicle of
London, 4to. 1827, p. 120. The vrord journey also frequently occurs in another
chronicle of the sixteenth century, where an account is given of the ^^joumiet that
were done after the Kyng landid at Caleis," (anno 8 Hen. VI.) whence its import
may be fully understood. Ibid. p. 170.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
165
and testify, that at the last expedition in France of our most John of
dread lord and father, on whom God have mercy, a controversy
arose concerning the said arms between Sir Ilichard le Scrope
aforesaid, and one called Carminow of Cornwall, which Carminow
challenged those arms of tlie said Sir Richard, the which dispute
was referred to sis knights, now, as I ' think, dead, who upon
true evidence found the said Carminow to be descended of a
lineage armed ' Azure, a bend Or,' since the time of King Arthur ;
and they found that the said Sir Richard was descended of a
right hne of ancestry armed with the said arms, ' Azure, a bend
Or,' since the time of King Wilham the Conqueror ; and so it
was adjudged that both might bear the arms entire. But We
have not seen or heard that the said Sir Robert, or any of his
name, bore the said anns before the last expedition in Scotland
with our Lord the King."
The arms of the King of Castile, in 1386, were Quarterly,
1. and i. Outes, a castle triple-towered Or, Castilb; 2. and 3.
Argent, a lion rampant Gules, Leon ; Impaling, Quarterly, 1. and
4. Azure, semee of fleurs de lis Or, Frincb; 2. and 3. Gules,
three lions passant in pale Or, England ; a label of three points,
Ermine.^
THE EARL OF DERBY, Henry Plantagenet, eldest son ^^^^""
of John of Gant by Blanch of Lancaster, was born in 1366, and
bore the title of Earl of Derby, which was one of the dignities
vested in his maternal grandfather, Henry Duke of Lancaster.
When called upon to give his testimony, he was only twenty years
of age, and he alludes in his evidence to his youth. He was then
at Plymouth with his father ; and Froissart says, " Before the
Duke's departure, in the presence of his brothers, he appointed
his son Henry Earl of Derby his lieutenant of all that he had in
England, and set about bim wise and sage council."' " He was,"
that chronicler adds, " un beau chevalier." On the dethronement
of Richard the Second, the Earl of Derby, who had shortly before
I, Lancaster is mude to speak
' II is remarkable that in this pan of his Ueixis
jt the first person sii^lar.
' Seal of John of Gant, engraved in Sandford's Geaealogica] History.
* Proiuart par Buchon, tome x. p. 123.
166 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Derby*'^ succeeded to his father's honours, ascended the throne as King
Henry the Fourth.
" The Earl of Derby being prayed, &c. said, We truly testify
that We are young, and have been only a short time armed, but
We have in our time seen the said Sir Richard publicly armed in
the arms Azure, a bend Or, and also others of his name and
lineage, with diflferences : and with respect to Sir Robert Grosvenor,
We have never seen or known him to bear the said arms until the
last expedition in Scotland with our Lord the King.""
The arms of the Earl of Derby, in 1386, were. Gules, three
lions passant gardant in pale Or, a label Aziire, charged with
fleurs de lis Or, being the coat of his grandfather Henry Duke
of Lancaster.^
Richard Lord LORD POYNINGS. Richard Poynings fourth Lord Poyn-
ings, was the second son of Michael second Lord Poynings, by
Joan relict of Sir John Molyns. He succeeded his brother
Thomas in the barony in 1375, at which time he was seventeen
years of age, so that he must have been about twenty-eight when
he made his deposition. He served in the wars of his time with
credit, if not with particular distinction ; and died at Villa Pando
in Castile * in July or August 1387. By his wife Isabel, daughter
and heiress of Sir Robert Fitz Payne, he left issue, Robert fifth
Lord Pojmings, then five years of age, and a daughter, Joan.
On the death of the said Robert Lord Poynings in 1446, the
barony became vested in the house of Percy by the marriage
of Sir Henry Percy, afterwards third Earl of Northumberland,
with Eleanor Poynings his grand-daughter and heiress.
Lord Poynings, being sworn and examined, said, that during
the time he was armed, which was from his youth, he saw the said
Sir Richard armed Azure, a bend Or, and many of his name and
lineage with difierences; and that he had heard from his late
father, on whom God have mercy, that the said arms appertained
to the said Sir Richard by right of ancestry, but that he had never
heard that the said Sir Robert Grosvenor had been so armed until
the last expedition in Scotland.
' A painting in the chancel of East Rochford church in Essex, impaling the
anns of his Countess, Mary de Bohun. — Saudford's Genealogical History.
' Froissart by Bemers, vol. iii. p. 502. •
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 167
The arms of Lord Poynings were Barry Or and Verl, a bend
Gules.'
SIR THOMAS PERCY, K.G. afterwards Eabl op Wor- s.nTHr.«.s
CESTBB, was the second son of Henry Baron Percy, by Mary "^*^'"
Plantagenet, daughter of Henry Earl of Lancaster, and was bro-
ther of Henry Lord Percy who was created Earl of Northumber-
land in 1377. He was probably about forty-five years of age
when he made his deposition, and had long been distinguished
by his military services. The Order of the Garter was conferred
upon him in or before 1384, and he was appointed Admiral of
tlie Fleet with which John of Gant's army sailed for Spain in
June 1386.»^ In 1390 he was Ambassador to the French court,
on which occasion Charles the Sixth permitted him to dine at his
table, and styled and treated him as his '* cousin on the side of
Northumberland." ' Sir Thomas Percy became Steward of the
King's Household in 1392, and in September 1397 was created
Earl of Worcester. After the dethronement of Richard the Second,
the Earl obtained the confidence of his successor, at whose coro-
nation he officiated as High Steward of England ; but he subse-
quently joined a confederacy against Henry the Fourth, which
led to the " sory bataill of Schrovesbury, between Englysshmen
and Englysshmen,"* on the 21st July 1403; when his nephew
the renowned Hotspur lost his life ; and the Earl of Worcester
being taken prisoner, he was conveyed to Shrewsbury, and there
beheaded on the 23rd of that month,* and was attainted of high
treason. He died unmarried.
By the appellation of " Sir Thomas Percy, brother of the
Earl of Northumberland," he deposed to the same eifect con-
cerning Sir Richard Scrope, as Lord Poynings had done, and
added that he had heard that Sir Robert Grosvenor was a gen-
tleman of high degree [est grant gentilx home], but he had never
seen or heard that he had been armed in any battle or journey
with the said arms, until the last expedition in Scotland.
' Kotls of Amu temp. Edw. II. acid III. priated in Bvo. 1828 and 1829,
and Seals. ' Froissart par Buchon, x. 124,
' Froi9sart pai Buchon, xii. p. 3J1. His maternal grandmolhcr was the
daughterofRobertComted'Artois, brother of Louis 1\. King of France.
' Chronicle of London, p. 88.
1
n
168 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
The Earl of Worcester's arms were Or, a lion rampant Azure,
differenced by a crescent Gules. ^
Sir Hugh SIR HUGH HASTINGS was the second son of Sir Hugh
Hastings of Fenwick in Yorkshire, who died in 1347, by Margaret
daughter of Sir Adam de Everingham,^ and was about forty
years of age in 1386. His grandfather. Sir Hugh Hastings, of
whom he speaks in his deposition, was the son of John Lord
Hastings by his second wife Isabel Despenser.
Hastings served in most of the military expeditions of his
time; and being abroad in the King's service in May 1356, in
November 1377 in the retinue of the Earl of Salisbury, in
March 1378,^ and in Brittany in July 1380, he obtained upon
each of those occasions letters of protection and general attorney.^
In the last-mentioned year he appeared in the Court of Chivalry
as one of the mainpernors of Thomas Catreton, who was accused
by Sir John Annesley of having traitorously delivered the Castle
of St. Saviour in France to the enemy. He died in Spain in
1387,* and left issue by Ann daughter of Edward Spencer of the
county of Gloucester, who afterwards married Thomas Lord Mor-
ley,* a son Hugh, who was nine years of age in the 10th Ric. 11.^
and died in his minority in the 19th Ric. II. leaving his brother
Edward his heir,^ who is memorable for his contest with Lord
Grey of Ruth}n[i for the right to the arms of Hastings.
Sir Hugh Hastings deposed to the same effect with regard to
Sir Richard Scrope as the former witnesses; and said that he
had heard his father state that his grandfather and Sir Geoffrey
le Scrope were companions in divers battles and journeys, and that
the said Sir Geoffrey was armed in the same arms with a label ;
and that in memorial of their companionship, his said grandfather
caused the arms Azure, a bend Or, with a label, to be placed
in a glass window sixty years ago.
The arms of Sir Hugh Hastings were Or, a maunch Gules,
' ViDcent on Brooke, p. 609.
» Esch. 21 Edw. III. n« 52. » Rot Franc. 1 Ric. II. p. 1 1. m. 19.
* Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. p. 60. 122. 124. 129.
* Vincent's Yorkshire, in the College of Anns. • £sch. 10 Ric. II. n® 21.
^ Vincent's Yorkshire and Esch. 2 Hen. IV. no 60.
SIR RICHARD .SCROPE, 169
a label Azure ; ' and they were probably differenced by some
other charge during the lifetime of his elder brother Sir John
Hastings.
SIR JOHN HASTINGS was the elder brother of Sir Hugh ^
Hastings just mentioned, and was bom in 1345.' Very little is
known aliout him : his name does not occur in the pedigree
of Ilia family alluded to in the last page, and he probably died
without issue. In his deposition he merely corroborated, and
in almost the same words, the statement of his brother; the only
variation being, that the arms of Serope which his grandfather
caused to he painted on a glass window, stood, he said, in his
grandfather's chapel.
His arms were Or, a maunch Gules, a label Azure.'
SIH WALTER URSEWYKE. Little genealogical infor- s
mation has been discovered of this indivfdual, but he may have
been a brother of Adam de Uraewyke of Yorkshire, who died in
the 35th Kdw. III. 1361.*
Sir Walter was bom about 1326, and served with reputation
under the Duke of Lancaster, by whom he was retained for life,^
in the wars of Scotland, France, and Spain. In 1356 the King
granted him sixty shillings, at which time he was " valet" to
John of Gant." On the 18th February 1361, that prince granted
him for life, by the appellation of" our trusty and wcU-beloved
esquire," the bailiwick and custody of the new forest in Rich-
mondshire, with the fees and wages accustomed. In May in the
following year, he granted to him the wardship and office of Con-
stable of Richmond Castle for life; and on the 14th October 1363,
the Duke confirmed to him an annuity of 20/. yearly out of the
' Roll of Arms temp. Edw. III. 8to. 1829, and Vincenl's Yorkshire.
• Esch. 31 Etiw. III. D» 52.
' Roll of Arms temp. Edw. III. aud Vincent's Yorksliira.
• Each, 35 Edw, III. n" 88. Adam Uraewyke left a son, Robert, then twenly-
five years old, who was knigliied, and died in 4 Hen. IV., at which time his son
and heir Sir Robert Ursewyke was thirty years of age. Esch. 4 Hen. IV. n" IS.
' R«gislrum Johannis Ducis Lancaitri», 3—7 Ric. II.
• Rou Liberal. 30 Edw. III. m. 2.
J
170 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib Walter issiies of the manor of Aldeburgh.i By the style of " Nostre bien
1 1 1I.8RW YKEa
amez bachiler Wauter de Uswyk/' Lancaster granted him on the
22nd November 1367, an annuity of 40/. in reward of his services
in Spain and elsewhere, " and for the maintenance of the Order
of Knight which he received from us on the day of the battle
of Najara," which grant the King confirmed.* The Sheriff of
Lancashire, Ursewyke, and others, were commanded to exercise
archers in that county in March 1373,^ and two years afterwards
he was in Brittany.* In 1386 he obtained letters of protection
and general attorney, in consequence of being about to accompany
the King of Castile into Spain .^
Sir Walter deposed that he was of the age of sixty, and
had been armed forty years and upwards. He said that he had
seen Sir Richard Scrope so armed in coat armour, and with
banner and pennon, in divers battles and journeys, as well as
many of his name and lineage with differences ; that the said arms
appertained to him by right of ancestry from time immemorial;
that he had heard it so said by many noble and valiant lords,
knights, and esquires, and as matter of common fame and re-
port ; that he saw in France and elsewhere Sir Henry le Scrope
with his banner with the same arms. Azure, a bend Or, with
a label as a branch of Sir Richard; and that he also saw Sir
William le Scrope, who was own brother to the said Sir Richard,
and was wounded and died of his wound, which Sir William was
armed Azure, a bend Or. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of his
arms, he never had knowledge until the last expedition into
Scotland with our Lord the King.
The arms of Sir Walter Ursewyke^ were. Argent, on a bend
Sable, three lozenges Argent, each charged with a saltire Gules.^
* Inedited collections for Rymer^s Foedera among the Additional MSS. in the
British Museum.
« Foedera, iii. p* ii. p. 132. Calend. Rot. Patent, p. 183 b. and Froissart par
Buchon, iv. 375. « Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 110.
* Froissart, par Buchon, vi. 93. * Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 194. 198.
< A tomb in Catterick chuich, on which are these arms, a bend charged with
three mullets, impaling Scrope of Masham, is mistaken in Whitaker's Richmond-
shire, vol. ii. p. 29. for that of Sir Walter Ursewyke, it being in feet the tomb of
William de Pert See pages 134 and 156 antea.
^ Contemporary Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling,
Canon of Lichfield.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 171
SIR RALPH DE IPRE. Though many particulars of a «'"
Sir John Ipre occur in the public records, little information has
been found congerning Sir Ralph. He was born about 1336 ; and
it appears from his arms that he was a ihird son. Between the
3rd and 7th Ric. II. he was retained to serve the Duke of Lan-
caster for life, at which time he was not a knight.' In March
1386, he obtained letters of protection, being then about to ac-
company John of Gant to Spain ; - and was a commissioner to treat ,
for peace with Scotland in 1405.'
Ipre stated in hia deposition that he was fifty years of age, and
that he had been armed thirty-two years ; that he had seen and
known Sir Richard Scrope with the arms A/ure, a bend Or, on
his body, and many others of his lineage with the same arms
differenced, in coat-armour, and on banners and pennons, in divers
battles and journeys; and that he had often heard eminent per-
sons, [grauntes] lords, knights, and e.squirea, say that the same
arms appertained of right to his ancestors, and were descended
by direct line to the said Sir Richard, as common voice and fame
testified. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor he never had any knowledge
at any place where he had been armed, nor of his arms, until the
last expedition of the King in Scotland.
The arms of Sir Ralph Ipre were, Argent, on a chevron be-
tween three bulls' heads caboshed Gules, a mullet Argent.*
MARTIN FERRERS, Esquire. The peculiarity of the bap- M"
tismal name of this person, the non-occurrence of it in any f
gree of Ferrers, excepting of Ferrers of Here Ferrers, together with
some other circumstances, justify the inference that he was the
son of Sir John Ferrers of Bere Ferrers in Devonshire, who suc-
ceeded his father in that manor, and left three daughters his
coheirs ; namely, Joan the wife of Alexander Champernon ; Eliza-
beth, who married Hugh Poynings Lord St. John ; and Leva, the
wife of Sir Christopher Fleming, Baron of Slane in Ireland.'
Martin Ferrers was born about 1325, and commenced his mi-
litary career at the age of twenty-one. In April 1358, John Coes-
' Registrum Johaunts Ducia t-aticasChar. ' Fredcra, iii.
' Rot-Scoc. 6llen. IV. m. 4.
' Uoll of AiTQs IP ihe possession of the Rev. John Newling.
■'• Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p. 336. Cotton. MS. Olho D.
z2
^
L
172
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Martin
Ferrers, Esq.
quen his prisoner was permitted to go to Brittany to raise his
ransom,^ and in May 1377 he was ordered to adopt measures for
the defence of Plymouth in case of invasion by the French.^ He
was a Commissioner of Array for the defence of the coast of Devon
in the 2nd Ric. 11.,^ and was commanded to muster some men-at-
arms for the expedition to Portugal in May 1381.* In July 1383
he was appointed to muster the archers and men-at-arms in the
retinue of Sir William Scrope, seneschal of Acquitaine;^ and a
similar duty was intrusted to him in February 1385.^ Ferrers
was living in Feb. 1393, as he was then an arbitrator to decide a
dispute between Richard Somestre and Sir Philip Courtenay, rela-
tive to certain lands in Devonshire.*^ It is most probable that his
deposition was taken at Plymouth in consequence of the vicinity
of his residence to that place, for his advanced age renders it un-
likely that he was about to serve in the Duke of Lancaster'^s army.
Ferrers merely stated that he was sixty years of age and up-
wards, and had been armed forty-five years ; that in all the bat-
tles and journeys in which he had been, he had seen Sir Richard
Scrope armed &c. as the other witnesses had deposed; that he
had heard that the progenitors of the said Sir Richard were so
armed from time of which memory runneth not ; and never heard
or knew that Sir Robert Grosvenor bore the said arms.
The arms of Martin Ferrers were, Or, on a bend Sable, three
horse-shoes Argent.®
Robert Fitk
Halph, Esq.
ROBERT FITZ RALPH, Esquire, appears to have been the
second son of Sir John Fitz Ralph of Sufiblk, by Alice daughter
of Sir John Whalesborough,^ and was bom in 1332. The few
particulars which have been found of him reflect little credit on
his memory. In the 7th Ric. II. 1383, he was one of the per-
sons who were accused by the Commons of having received money
from the French as a bribe to agree to a treaty which was inju-
» Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. p. 68. * Foedera, iii. p^iii. p.59.
' Rot. Patent, 2 Ric. II. p. 2, m. 30 d.
* Foedera, iii. p*iii. p. 119. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. p. 172.
* Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. p. 148. ' Rot. Pari. iii. 302 b.
* Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p. 482.
' Harleian MS. 1560, f. 317. Another pedigree, by Glover, differing materially
from the one in that MS. will be found in the Lansdowne MS. 205, f. 45.
SIR BICHAItD SCROPE.
173
nous to the interests of England, and for the surrender of Bur- "
burgh and other castles. Fitz Ralph confessed that the Duke of
Brittany had given him 400 franks, but he denied having in any
way treated with the enemy. He was adjudged to pay the King
the amount he had received, and to be imprisoned during plea-
sure; and on the 6th March 1.384^, the Sheriff of Essex was com-
manded to distrain his lands and goods for the said 400 franks
of gold.' His imprisonment could not have been of very long
duration, as he obtained letters of protection in ctmsequence of
being about to serve in the retinue of John of Gant in his expedi-
tion to Spain in January 1386.^
Fitz Ralph deposed that he was fifty-four years of age, and
that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope and others of his family arm-
ed, in divers battles and journeys. Of Grosvenor he knew nothing
until the last journey in Scotland with the King.
By Eleanor Waldegrave, his wife, he left issue Robert Fitz
Ralph, HsquJre, whose sole daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, mar-
ried John a Lee, Esquire, and left issue Cecily, her daughter and
heir, who married Christopher Harman of Rendlesham in Suffolk.
A pedigree of their descendants is recorded in the Heralds' Visi-
tations of that county. The arms of Robert Fitz Ralph were, Or,
three chevronels Gules ; on each three fleurs de lis Argent.*
THOMAS HESILDEN, EsQttmE, of Steple Morden in the l
county of Cambridge, was the son of Christopher Hesilden, and
was bom in 1322. Very little has been discovered about him,
excepting what occurs in his deposition, In 1372 he was one of
the Duke of Lancaster's feoffees in the manor of Seham in Cam-
bridgeshire i* and in July 1.381 he was commanded with others
to meet the Duke at Berwick with seventy men-at-arms and sixty
lances. Hesilden had been retained to serve Lancaster for life,
in peace or war,' and was comptroller of his household.^ The
> Rol. Pail.tii.156— 158.3<)8 a. F^tdera, iii. p' iii. 165.
' Fiedeia, iii. p* iii. p. 190.
' Roll of Aims temp. Edw. II. 8vo. 1828, where this coal is attributed to Sir
William Fitz Rsuf of Suffolk ; and the Heraldic Viailatious of thai couul;.
' Fffideni, iii. p'ii.p. 300.
" Registrum Johannis Ducis Lancaslriie, 3 — T Ric. II.
174 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Thomas ^^j^g ^f jjg death has not been ascertained ; but his tomb, hav-
Hesilden, Esq.
ing thereon his arms impaled with those of his wife, is said to
be at Steple Morden.^ By Joan, sister and coheiress of Sir Tho-
mas Borough of Borough Greene in that county, he left issue
Richard, great-great-grandfather of Francis Hesilden, whose
daughter and heiress, Frances, married Sir Robert Peyton of Isle-
ham, in Cambridgeshire, and of Anthony Hesilden, who left two
daughters and coheirs : the one, Elizabeth married to Richard
Bury of Hengran in Bedfordshire, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ;
and the other, who married Frevile of M eldreth, died without
issue. Hesilden deposed that he was aged sixty-six, and had
been armed forty-six years; that he had in divers battles and
journeys seen Sir Richard Scrope, his body armed Azure, a bend Or,
his banner in battle publicly borne, and standards with these arms
always placed outside of his quarters [herbergages], and in full
view of every one ; that others of his lineage were armed in the
same arms with differences; and that he had heard noble and
valiant lords, knights, and esquires, now with God, say that they
of right appertained to the said Sir Richard le Scrope, and had
descended to him by right line, and were in possession of him and
his ancestors from time immemorial, according to the common
voice and report. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor he had never heard
speak, nor did, nor doth he now, know him.
Hesilden^s arms were. Argent, a cross flory Sable.^
Robert ROBERT CAUNSFELD, Esquire. This person was pro-
Caunsfeu), , ,
Esq. bably a member of the Lancashire family of that name, but he
has not been identified ; and the only thing which has been found
relating to him, excepting what he states in his deposition, is,
that he was retained to serve John of Gant for life.^ It appears
from his evidence that he was bom in 1336, and first served
in the field in January 1356, at the age of twenty, when Edward
the Third retook Berwick from the Scots.
Caunsfeld deposed that he was fifty years old, and was first
armed at the battle in Scotland, in the first expedition in Scotland
with the grandsire of our Lord the King ; that he had seen the
said Sir Richard le Scrope armed, Azure, a bend Or, in divers
* Vincent's Cambridgeshire, f. 368.
' Registmm Johannis Ducis Lancastrian^ 3 — 7 Ric. II.
sm RICHARD SCROPE. 175
expeditions in Scotland and France, in battles and other jour- Ro"f"
neys, as well as others of his lineage with diiTerences, publicly; F.«o.
that during the time he was armed, he never heard that any
other man but the said Sir Richard and tliose of his lineage had
been armed with those arms ; and that he had often heard the
oldest people say, that the arms Azure, a bend Or, appertained
of right to the said Sir Richard, and were lineally descended to
him from his ancestors. He never in his time heard aught to
the contrary. And of Sir Robert Grosvenor he had never heard
until the last expedition in Scotland with the King.
The arms of Caunsfeld were, Or, three bars Gules, a canton
Ermine.'
SIR JOHN LOUDHAM, the Son. Although there were s.r Jr.
two knights of this name examined in the Scrope and Gros- son.
venor controversy, it is remarkable that one of them should be
distinguished as " the son," instead of as " junior," because they
were not related to each other, and the father and grandfather of
Sir John Loudham, who is called " the son," were both dead at
that perio<l. This Deponent was the son and heir of Thomas
Loudham (who died in vitfi patris), eldest son of Sir John Loud-
ham of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, Knight, who died
in 1356, when his grandson, John Loudham, was found to be his
next heir, and of the age of four years,- which exactly agrees with
his statement that he was thirty-four in 13116. All which has
been found relating to him is, that he was retained to serve the
Duke of Lancaster for bfe;' and that on the 12th April 1386, he
obtained letters of general attorney, being then about to go to
Spain with that prince, in which he is properly styled " Johannes
de Loudham,jMnio7-, Miles."*
Sir John Loudham married Jane daughter and heiress of Sir
William Kelvedon of Braxted in Essex, and had a son Sir Thomas
Loudham, whose son John Loudham, of Loudham in Suffolk, died
about the 22nd Kdw. IV. leaving Jane his daughter and heiress
the wife of Ralph Blennerhasset of Frens in Norfolk, Esquire.*
' Each. 30 Edw. III. n'
Kegistium JohonuiB DucU LancasCiiiE,
3—7 Ric. II.
FtEdera,iii. pMii. p. 198.
' Vincent's Suffolk, f.
1
176
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir John
loudham, the
Son.
Loudham's deposition contained little bearing upon the question
at issue, or which affords information about himself, as he merely
stated that he was thirty-four years of age; that he had seen
Scrope armed in the disputed arms, and had also observed them
borne on banners, pennons, and coat armour, with differences by
others of his family, in divers journeys; that he had often heard
old knights and esquires say that the said arms belonged, and had
lineally descended, to Sir Richard Scrope. Of Sir Robert Gros-
venor he knew nothing, and had never heard of him, or of any of
the name, until the last expedition into Scotland with the King.
The arms of Loudham were. Argent, three escocheons Sable.*
Sir Richard
Beverliy.
SIR RICHARD BEVERLEY, Knight. All which is posi-
tively known 2 of this person is, that in January 1380 he was
Treasurer of the Household of John of Gant,' and that his Arms
were. Quarterly Argent and Gules, a rose counterchanged.* He
was probably however the Sir Richard Beverley who married
Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Roucliffe of Roucliffe, Knight,
by his first wife, Constance Malby.*
Beverley deposed that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope armed
in his entire arms, and others of his lineage with differences, in
divers chivachies^ and expeditions, but knew nothing of Gros-
venor until the last journey in Scotland.
* Roll of Arms temp. Edw. II. 8vo. 1828.
' It is not likely that he was the Richard son of Thomas de Beverlee who was
excepted from the act pardoning the burgesses and commonalty of Beverley all
treasons &c. by them committed. Rot. Pari. 6 Ric. II. vol. iii. p. 135. A Richard
Beverley was one of the attomies of Michael Earl of Suffolk in 1391. F(£dera, iii.
pMv. p. 71. In the 4th Ric. II. a John Beverlee of London died, leaving, by
Amiciahis wife, who died in the 4th Hen. V., two daughters and coheirs, 1. Anne
the wife of ... . Langford and mother of Sir Robert Langford, Knight ; and, 2. Eli-
zabeth motlier of Walter Daunsy, whose sister Joan, the wife of Sir John Stradling,
became his heir. Escheats, 4 Ric. II. 4 Hen. V. and 16 Hen. VI.
' Registrum Johannis Ducis Lancastriae.
* Contemporary Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling.
* Pedigree of Roucliffe, compiled by Glover, in the Townley Manuscripts.
* In the original, " chivachees ;*' but the word has been anglicised. Thus
Chaucer says : — " He hadde be sometime in chevachie
In Flaundres, in Artois, and in Picardie."
Prolog. Cant. Tales, 1. 85.
'* This was a faire chivachee of a coke/'
Manciple's Prologue, 1. 16,999.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 177
SIR JOHN SAINT CLERE was the eldest son of John s-nJo^"
Saint Clere of Ightham in Kent by Alice his wife, and succeeded
to his father's lands on his death, in the 9th Edw. III., at which
time he was, according to the Inquisition, three years of age;'
but as he says he was fifty-six in 1386, he must havebeen nearly
five in 1335. Sir John Saint Clere stated that he commenced his
military career at the sea-fight near Rye, on the 20th August
1350, when Edward the Third defeated the Spanish fleet ; and it
is evident. from bis deposition, that he was in most of the expe-
ditions of his time ; but it contains nothing else which is worthy
of attention, nor has any other material fact been discovered about
him than that he was retained to serve John of Gant for life,
as well in peace as in war,^ and that being in the army with which
that prince went to Spain, he obtained letters of protection in
January 1386.*
He appears to have died in thai expedition ;* and by Mary his
wife, who re-married Sir Roger Beler, of Kirkby Beler in Leices-
tershire, and died in the 15th Ric. II.'^ he left a son. Sir Philip
Saint Clere, who was of full age in the 10th Ric. II. Thomas
Saint Clere, the grandson and heir of Sir Philip, died in the 13th
Hen. VI., leaving three daughters and coheirs, 1. Elizabeth the
wife of William Lovell, second son of John Lord Lovell of Tich-
marsh ; 2. Eleanor the wife of Sir John Gage, ancestor of the Vis-
counts Gage and of the Baronets of that name ; and 3. Edith, who
married Sir Richard Harcourt, from whom the Earls Harcourt
descended." The arms of Sir John Saint Clere were, Azure, the
sun in his glory Or.'
SIR JOHN DEINCOURT was born in 1338, and was evi- s.rJohn
dently a branch of the baronial family of Deincourt, but the rela-
Chivachee means literally an invasian or inroad w ilh cavalry, bul was applied
in a moie extended sense, and meant a military expedition. Ilolinshed Iramlates
the expression by " a rode."
' Esch. 9 Edw. ni. n° «. * Fcedera, iii. p' iii. p. 190.
' Regiitrum Johannia Duels Laocastris, 3^7 Ric. II.
• Esch. 10 Uic. II. n" 40. ' Esch. 15 Ric, II, n" 5.
' Se« a pedigree in Baker's History of Northamptonshire, i. 432, 433; and
Cage's Uistory of Hengrave, p. 326.
' Seals and monuments in Gage's History of Heograve, pages 72. 226. 230,
231. 236; bul, according to a Roll of Anns compiled in the reign ot Edward the
VOL. II. 2 A
178 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir John tionship cannot with certainty be stated.* The particulars which
DbINCOURT. •iii.i.i.i .1
are recorded of this knight are neither numerous nor important ;
but from his having been steward of the household to John of
Oant, by whom he was retained for life,^ it is probable that he
was a person of great merit. In April 1383 he was Constable of
Kenilworth castle;^ and on the 8th January 1386, being then
about to go into Spain in the retinue of the King of Castile, he,
with other knights and esquires, was appointed to conduct Sir
Baldwin de la Huse, a French knight and prisoner of John de
Windsor, Esq. to France.^ By the description of ^^ Johannes
Deyncourt, Miles, Senescallus Hospitii carissimi avunculi Regis
Johannis Regis Castellan et Legionis, Ducis Lancastriae,^^ he ob-
tained letters of protection for one year, being in the retinue
of the said Duke going to Spain, which were dated 12th Ja-
nuary 1386.*
His deposition contains nothing remarkable. He said that he
was forty-eight years old, and had been armed thirty years ; that
he had seen Sir Richard Scrope armed in the arms Azure, a
bend Or, and on banners and pennons, in expeditions, journeys,
and battles, with others of his name using these arras with difTer-
ences ; that he had heard from old knights that the said arms be-
longed to him of right. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor he never heard
until the last expedition in Scotland with the King.
Sir John Deincourt died in 1393, seised of lands in the coun-
ties of Lincoln, Warwick, and Derby,* and left Roger Deincourt
his son and heir then eighteen years old, who made proof of his
age in 1st Hen. IV. and petitioned Parliament relative to the
manor of Ansty in Warwickshire in January 1404.^
Second, " Sire Johan de Seintclere** of Suffolk bore " de Or, un lion rampand de
Gueules od la couwe forchie, e un coler de Argent." 8vo. 1828. p. 43.
* He might possibly have been the Sir John Deincourt whom Blore, in an
elaborate but not very correct pedigree, in his History of Rutland, p. 151, calls a
younger son of John Deincourt, who died vit&. patris, eldest son of Edmund Baron
Deincourt. But if Blore be correct in considering that the said Sir John Deincourt
was the person mentioned in the entail of the lands of Edmund Lord Deincourt,
in the 7 Edw. II. the conjecture would be erroneous, as the Deponent was not
bom until 1338. There is however no evidence of the identity of the two persons,
and the dates render it improbable. ' Registrum Johannis Ducis Lancastrise.
^ Hot. Gascon. 9 Ric. II. m. 28. * Fcedera, iii. p* iii. p. 190.
* Esch. 17 Ric. II. n» 17. • Rot. Pari. iii. 530.
SIE HICHARD SCROPE. 179
The arms of Sir John Deincourt were. Argent billet6e, and a
fess dancettee Sable'
SIR HENRY RETFORD appears to have been a member, s.k h«n,
if not the representative, of an ancient family in the counties of
Lincoln and Essex, whose name is usually written Ratford, or
Rochford, and was born in 1354. In the 9th Ric. II. 1385, he
was commanded to attend the King into Scotland for the period
of forty days;- and on the 12th April 1386 he obtained letters
of general attorney, being then about to accompany the Duke of
Lancaster to Spain.' On 11th April 1396, Sir Henry received
letters of protection on the occasion of his going to the Court
of Rome at Avignon on the King's affairs.* In 1405 he was
summoned to attend the Privy Council from the county of Lin-
coln,* after which time nothing has been ascertained about him.
The pedigrees of the family are very imperfect; but, according
to one statement, a Sir Henry Retford, who may have been the
Deponent, was the father of Robert Retford, whose daughter
and coheiress married John Harisone of Bishops Norton in Lin-
colnshire, and had a daughter Alice, who was the wife of James
Plessington, ancestor of the family of Plessington of that county.''
Sir Henry Retford's deposition is wholly unimportant, either in
illustration of the question in dispute, or of his own life. His
arms are presumed to have been, Quarterly Or and Gules, a
bordure Sable besantee.'
SIR WILLIAM VAVASOUR was the eldest son of Sir Wil- s™ w,i,
liam Vavasour, I«rd of Stubhes and Woodhall, in the county of
Vorlt, by Elizabeth daughter of Nicholas Stapleton of Carlton.
As his father died vita patris in 1357, leaving three children. Sir
' Roll of Aims in the posiessioii of the Rev. John Newling. The same coat
is attributed to a Sir William Deincourt of Yorkshire in n Roll of Arms of the
time of Edward the Second. 8ro. 1828.
■ MS. marked " £xitus, No. 29." 35. io the College of Arms.
' F<edera, iii. p' iii. p. 198. ' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 174.
' CottOD. MS. Cleopatra, F. iii.f. 50.
• Vincent's "Taurus" in the College of Arms, f.S37.
' Roll of Arms temp. Edw. II. 8vo. 1828, p. 36, and Church Notes ib the
Harleian MS. 6829.
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180
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir William
Vavasour.
William must have been bom before the year 1354, but it is not
stated when he succeeded to the property of his grandfather Sir
Henry Vavasour of Cockerington. In the extensive collection for
the Vavasour pedigree by Glover, in the British Museum,^ several
abstracts of deeds granted by Sir William Vavasour occur, one of
which, dated in the 6th Ric. II. contains the following genealogical
information: — "Ego Willielmus filius et heres Willielmi, filii
Henrici Vavasour, &c. Cum nuper Elizabeth mater mea quondam
uxor predicti Willielmi, filii Henrici Vavasour, patris mei, &c.^ In
the same year he gave the manor of Woodhall to his brother Sir
Henry Vavasour,^ the ancestor of the Baronets of that name, and
died unmarried about the 10th Ric. II.* Sir William Vavasour's
deposition contains no other itiformation respecting himself, than
that he had served in many military expeditions.
His arms were, Or, a fess dancette Sable.*
Sir James
Cetes.
SIR JAMES CETES. As the name of Cetes has not been
found in any contemporary record, it is presumed to have been a
clerical error for Cotes, of which family, however, very little is
known. Hollis, in his valuable collection of Monumental Inscrip-
tions and other Church Notes in Lincolnshire, states that a Sir James
Cotes possessed Parva Cotes in that county, but omits the date,
though it may be inferred that he lived before the John Cotes of
that place, of whose will, dated on the feast of St. Matthew 1421,
Hollis has inserted a copy. He adds, that the inheritance of the
Cotes family came by marriage to the family of Del See, and from
Del See, also by marriage, to Hildeward.^ But a pedigree in the
College of Arms^ attributes to Sir James Cotes two daughters and
coheirs, 1. Mary the wife of Thomas Mussenden, son of Thomas
Mussenden of HoUinge, second son of Sir Thomas Mussenden
of Mussenden in Buckinghamshire, and 2. a daughter the wife of
Bamaby. Great uncertainty, however, prevails respecting
» Harleian MS. 245. f. 125. et seq.
' Harleian MS. 245. f. 129. His seal contained a shield charged with a fess
dancette. ^ Harleian MS. 245. f. 127 b.
* He was certainly dead without issue in 14th Ric. II. Harl. MS. 245. f. 128.
* Rolls of Arms before cited, and his Seal copied in the Harleian MS. 245.
* Harleian MS. 6829, f. 97. Several notices of persons called Cotes of Lincoln-
hire occur on the Rolls of Parliament. ' Vincent's ** Taurus," f. 1 15.
SIR RICHARD SCrtOPE. 181
this deponent, and tlie testimony he gave is so brief and unsatis-
factory that no light is thrown on his history.
The arms of Cotes of Lincolnshire were, Argent, a cross re-
cercel6e Sable.'
SIR WILLIAM MAULEVERER was the eldest son of Sir SihW.lua-
William Mauleverer of Woodsom in Yorkshire, by Jane daughter
and coheiress of Sir John Colvile,"and was bom in 1346. All which
has been discovered about him is, that he married Jane daughter of
Sir John Coyners of Sockbum in the county of Durham, and had
two sons, James and Robert. James Mauleverer, the eldest son,
had by his wife Anne WyclilT, three daughters his coheirs, Ro-
bert, the second son, was buried at Leeds in 1443, and was the
ancestor of the family of Mauleverer of Woodsom.'
It appears from Sir William Mauleverer's deposition, that he
was forty-two years of age, that he hatl served in the field since
1365, as he says he was first armed two years before the battle of
Najara, or, as he called it, the " battle of Spain," and that he had
been in numerous expeditions and battles where he had seen Sir
Richard Scrope and others of the Scrope family. On otiier points,
his testimony was merely confirmatory of that of the preceding
witnesses. His arms were, Sable, three greyhounds courant in
pale Argent, collared Or,*
STEPHEN DE PULHAM. EsurmE. This person was Stephin or
one of the Esquires retained by the Duke of Lancaster for life,'
and obtained letters of protection on the 12th January 1386 for
one year in consequence of serving in the expedition under John
of Gant into Spain.'' He stated in his deposition, that he was
forty-four years old, and had been armed ever since the battle of
Poictiers, at which it may be inferred he was present; and it is
evident that lie was in most of the battles and expeditions of his
time. The arms ascribed to I'ulham were, Sable, a demi lion
rampant Argent.
■ Haileiao MS. 6829, f.97.
' Brooke's Yoikshire, n° 1. f, 396, diflering, however, from Glover's Visitation
a<'15a4. ' HarleianMS. 6B29,f.97.
* Roll of Arms in tite possession of the Rev. John Newling.
' Records of the Duchy of Lancisler. ' FoEdera, iii. p' iii. p. 190.
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182 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir John SIR JOHN HOLAND, BROTHER OF THE KiNG, was the third
son of Thomas Holand Earl of Kent by Joane Plantagenet,
daughter and heiress of Edmund Earl of Kent, younger son of
King Edward the First. That celebrated lady, whose beauty
obtained for her the name of " the fair maid of Kent,^ having, in
her widowhood, captivated the heart of the Black Prince, she
became Princess of Wales, and mother of King Richard the
Second. Sir John Holand was consequently uterine brother 6f
that monarch, and was always styled the King^s brother. He
was bom about the year 1355,^ and was one of the most distin-
guished persons of his time. In the 4th Ric. II. he was made
Justice of Chester, and in the next year was sent to conduct
Anne, the young Queen, to England. One of the most memo-
rable events in his life occurred in 1385, when he was in the
expedition with the King in Scotland. A dispute having arisen
between a German knight and two of Holand's esquires, near the
town of Saint John of Beverley in Yorkshire, two archers of the
retinue of Sir Richard Stafford, eldest son of the Earl of Stafford,
interfered and blamed the esquires for not supporting the German.
Violent words ensued, and the archer shot one of the esquires
dead on the spot. As soon as Sir John Holand heard of the
murder of his esquire, he swore that he would neither eat nor
drink till he was revenged. Though it was then dark, he mount-
ed his horse, and taking with him some of his followers, he pro-
ceeded to the tent of the German knight, but accidentally met Sir
Richard Stafford on the road ; and after accosting him, he drew
his sword, and struck him so severe a blow that he instantly ex-
* pired. This affair produced great excitement in the army. The
Earl demanded justice from the King, who assured him that his
relationship to the criminal should not protect him from the laws.
Holand took sanctuary at Beverley;* and Walsingham states that
the Princess of Wales having implored the King'^s pardon for her
son without effect, she was so deeply afflicted at his probable fate,
that she died of grief five days afterwards. Through the me-
diation of the Duke of Lancaster, Sir John Holand was however
pardoned and restored to favour; and when he made his depo-
* His eldest brother was born in 1350.
' Froissart par Buchon, tome ix. p. 138.
: RICHAHU SCROPE.
185
and records a speech of his which, he says, excited the laughter of Sm Thohj*
his comrades. Being about to assault the town of Ruelles near
St. James, in Gallicia, he observed of the inhabitants, who were
leaning over the battlements, " that they were more snappish than
'* apes eating pears which children wished to take from them."
According to Froissart, Morieux married a natural daughter
of the Duke of Lancaster. His words are, speaking of the Duke's
departure for Spain with the Duchess his consort, " Et avoil la
" Duchesse sa fille qui s'appeloit Katherine, et de son premier
" mariage deux autres filles Ysabel et Philippe, laquelle Philippe
" (■toit S marier. Mais Ysabel etoit maride i Messire Jean de
" Hollande, qui etoit la connetable de tout I'ost, et marechal
" Messire Thomas Moriaux, lequci avoit aussi par mariage une
" de ses filles a femme ; mais elle etoit batarde, et fut m^re & la
*' dame Morielle, damoiselle Marie de Saint Hilaire de Hainault."'
The part of this statement which relates to Morieux is corrobo-
rated by the following facts. In the Diike of Lancaster's accounts
of the 6th March 4 Ric. 11. 1381, it is stated that he presented
Dame Blanch Morieux on her wedding day with twelve silver
spoons, twelve silver saucers, two basons with ewers, a basket
with a silver top, and other articles; ard on the 1st of June fol-
lowing, 100/. a-year were settled on Sir Thomas Morieux and
Blanch his wife for their lives, out of the issues of the manors of
Snetesham and Fakenham in Norfolk.' Though it is no where
said that Lancaster had a child of the name of Blanch by Kathe-
rine Swynford, it is certain that that lady was mother of a daugh-
ter so named ; for in January 1374 a warrant was issued to Oliver
Barton, ordering him to keep safely the heir of Sir Robert Dein-
court until Dame Katherine Swynford sent for him, as the Duke
of Lancaster had granted her the marriage of the said heir /or her
daughter Blanch, together with the wardship of his lands.* The
probability therefore, under all the circumstances, is, that the wife
of Sir Thomas Morieux was the fruit of John of Gant's illicit
connexion with Katherine Swynford. He died without issue in
1392,' and left his sister, Mary, the wife of Sir Richard Walke-
I Froissart par Buchoo, x. 124. Among the new year's gifts presecied by
JohnofGantin 1381, was one lo Mary St. lilac.
' Registrum Juliannis Duels Lanca^triar.
' The office of Constable of the Tower of London, which Sir Thomas Morieux
held for life, was granted i[i Ihe 15th Hic. 11. lo the Eail of Uutland, ioslead, as the
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186 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas £ure, his hdr, whose descendant and representative in 1467 was
Henry Strange,^ ancestor of the Baronets of that name, of Hun-
stanton in Norfolk.^
Sir Thomas Morieux deposed that he had seen Sir Rich-
ard Scrope and others of his lineage armed in those arms,
in coat armours, banners, and pennons, in divers expeditions,
battles, and journeys in France, Oascony, Brittany, Spain,
and Scotland, and never in all his life had any knowledge
to the contrary, and had very often heard from old lords,
knights, and esquires, that the arms belonged to Scrope fit)m
instrument recites, of Sir Thomas Morieux, then lately deceased. Rot. Claus. 15
Ric. II. p. 2. m. 31.
' Esch. 7 Edw. IV. n** 34. " Johannes Strange armiger 4to die Mali. — Jura-
tores dicuntquod quidam Thomas Morieux miles fuit seisitus de manerio de Thorp
Morieux, &c. et dedit Thome Morieux militi filio suo et heredibus, et pro defectu
exitus remanere inde Marie filie ipsius Thome Morieux patris, adtunc uxori Ricardi
Walkefare militis, et heredibus imperpetuum : virtute cujus doni idem Thomas
Morieux filius fuit seisitus, et sic inde obiit seisitus sine herede; post cujus
mortem predicta Maria ac predictus Ricardus Walkefare in omnibus predictis
intraverunt, et habuerunt exitum Alianoram et obierunt; post quorum mortem
omnia predicta discenderunt prefate Alianore, et cepit in virum Johannem Straunge,
et habuerunt exitum Johannem et obierunt; post quorum mortem predicta dis-
cendebant prefato Johanni Straunge filio, et habuit exitum Rogerum, et obiit
inde seisitus [Vide Esch. 15 Hen. VI. n*" 52] ; post cujus mortem omnia predicta
descendebant prefato Rogero, et habuit exitum Johannem Straunge in predicto
breyi nominatum, ac Henricum Straunge, et obiit inde seisitus ; post cujus mortem
omnia predicta discendebant prefato Johanni, et sic inde obiit seisitus sine herede;
post cujus mortem omnia predicta discendebant prefato Henrico Straunge, et fuit
inde seisitus. £t dicunt quod Johannes Straunge obiit ultimo die Aprilis ultimo
preterito. [The Inquisition was taken 23rd Oct. 7 Edw. IV. 1467.] Et quod
dictus Ilenricus Straunge est frater et ejus heres propinquior et etatis xxx aunorum
et amplius.'*
Thomas Lucas, Solicitor General to King Henry VII. quartered the arms of
Morieux with his own, as appears from his cenotaph in Little Saxham Church, in
Suffolk ; his great-grandfather, Edmund, according to some pedigrees of the Lucas
family, having married another sister of Sir Thomas Morieux, the Constable of the
Tower : in proof of which alliance. Chitting, Chester Herald, refers to a document
with the seal of the Bishop of Norwich.
• See "The English Baronetage/' ed. 1741, vol. ii. p. 145, and a pedigree of
L« Strange in Blomefield's " History of Norfolk," whence it appears tliat Airmine,
one of the sisters and coheirs of Sir Henry Le Strange the last Baronet (who died in
1760), married Nicholas Styleman of Snettisham in Norfolk, Esq. by whom she
left issue ; and that Lucy, the other sister and coheir of Sir Henry, was the wife of
Sir Jacob Astley of Melton Constable, Bart., great-grandfather of the present Sir
Jacob Astley, who is consequently one of the representatives of Sir Thomas
Morieux, the Deponent.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 183
aition in the Scrope controversy, he was Constable of the army Sir John
with which the Duke was about to sail for Spain,^ and in conse-
quence obtained letters of protection, dated 6th March 1386, where-
in he is styled " Carissimus frater regis Johannes Holand Miles."'
On the 2nd June 1387 he was created Earl of Huntingdon ; and
in September 1397 was raised to the Dukedom of Exeter : he was
appointed Admiral of the Fleet in 1389) was constituted Lord
High Chamberlain for life in 1393, and, according to some
authorities, was a Knight of the Garter.
The Duke of Exeter"'s fortunes declined after the accession of
Henry the Fourth. In 1399 he was deprived of his lands and
honours ; and having joined a conspiracy against Henry, he was,
after a vain effort to escape, made prisoner, carried to Chelmsford,
and thence to Plessy, where he was beheaded by the populace,
without even the form of a trial, on the 22nd September 1400,
being then not more than forty-six or forty-seven years of age.
By Elizabeth daughter of John of Gant Duke of Lancaster, (by
his first wife Blanch, daughter and coheiress of Henry Duke of
Lancaster,) who survived him, the Duke of Exeter had three
sons: Richard Holand, who died unmarried in 1416; John, who
was restored to the Earldom of Huntingdon in 1417, and was
created Duke of Exeter in 1442 ; and Sir Edward Holand : and
one daughter, Constance, who married first, Thomas Mowbray
Duke of Norfolk ; and secondly, John Lord Grey of Ruthyn.
The male descendants of the first Duke of Exeter, the Deponent,
became extinct on the death of his grandson Henry Duke of
Exeter in 1474.
The deposition of Sir John Holand contained nothing of the
slightest interest. His arms were those of England within a
bordure of France.^
SIR THOMAS MORIEUX. This distinguished individual Sir Thomas
was the son of Sir Thomas Morieux of Thorp Morieux in Sufiblk,
the descendant of an ancient family in that county.^
> Froissart par Buchon, tome x. p. 124. ' Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 194.
3 Sandford*s Genealogical History, and the Duke*s seals.
* The following information relative to the family of Morieux has been oblig-
ingly communicated by John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Direct. SA. In the 15th Edw. I.
(Plac. Corons 15 Edw. I. roL 40,) Hugh de Mur^s, or Morieus, whose ancestor
Roger (Le Neve's MS.) held a knight's fee in Thorp, in the hundred of Cosford in
l^
184 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib Thomas He Succeeded under a settlement made by his father to the
MOBISUZ. i. rr>T •
manors of Thorp Morieux, Gorges, and Brokehalle,^ and was
Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1367 and 1368.2 On the 28th
June in that year he witnessed the grant of the manor of Kentwell
by Thomas Sy ward and Joan his wife, the daughter and coheiress
of Sir Robert Gower, to her relative John Gower the Poet,' a cir-
cumstance which renders it probable that Morieux was personally
known to that celebrated person. In the Parliament which met at
Westminster in April 1376 he was one of the mainpernors for the'
appearance of Lord Latimer, who was accused of various offences
by the Commons.* In the same month he was a Commissioner to
preserve the truce with France,^ and in 1381 was made Constable
of the Tower of London for life.^ Sir Thomas Morieux must have
been a veteran soldier ; for in his deposition he said he had served
in divers battles, journeys, and expeditions in France, Gascony,
Brittany, Spain, and Scotland, including the Kings's last invasion
of Scotland in 1385; but his military reputation is proved by his
being Marshal of the army with which John of Gant went to Spain
in August in the following year,^ in consequence of which he
obtained letters of protection, dated 6th March 1386, wherein he
is thus described : — " Thomas Murreux Chivaler alias dictus
Thomas Morrous, vel Morrieux, Chivaler.'^® Froissart frequently
mentions him as having eminently distinguished himself in Spain,^
Suffolk, had free warren granted to him in his lands in Thorp, called for distinction
** Thorp Morieux.'' In the 7th £dw. II. a fine was levied between Hugh de
Murieus and John his son, and Edmund Peche and Margaret hb wife, of the
manor and advowson of Felsham in Suffolk, to enure after the death of Edmund
and Margaret to Hugh and John, and the heirs of John. In the 6th Edw. III. Sir
Thomas, son of Hugh de Morieux, was owner of the manor of Felsham, and pre-
sented to the church of Felsham in the 9th of the same reign (Fin. 6 Edw. III. —
Lib. Instit 2, f.74); and according to Martin, the arms of Morieux, Gules, a bend
Argent billett^ Sable, were in Felsham Church. This Thomas Morieux, who must
have been younger brother and heir of John, confirmed in the 9th Edw. III. (Vin-
cent's MS. n^* 88, f. 133,) to Ralph Sampson of Bretenham certain lands in He-
cham. He was probably the father of Sir Thomas Morieux the deponent
> Esch. 7 Edw. IV. n*» 34. * Rot. Claus.
' Ancient Charters in the British Museum, 56 G 42. See Retrospective Re-
view, New Series, vol. ii. p. 108. The deed is dated at Melford. '
* Rot. Pari. 50 Edw. III. vol. ii. p. 327. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 118.
* Calend. Rot Patent, p. 205-6. In July 1 382 Sir Thomas de Gyssyng, Knight,
bequeathed to Sir Thomas Morieux a hauberk of steel, and appointed him one of
his executors. Harleian MS. 10. f.24. ^ Froissart par Buchon, x. 124.
* Foedera, iii. p' iii. p. 195.
^ Par Buchon^ tome x. pages 142,143. 146. 149. 180. 191. 335, 336.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 187
time beyond the memory of man. He had never heard of the Si»
said Sir Robert Grosvenor or of his ancestry, whence he was, or
whence he came, until the last expedition in Scotland with our
Lord the King.
Sir Thomas Morieux's arms were, Gules, a bend Argent bll-
letee Sable.'
SIR JOHN DE SETON, or SEYTON, was the eldest son Sib ,
of Sir John Seyton of Draughton in Northamptonshire, by Bridget
daughter of Lord Basset of Sapcote,'' and was born about the year
1346. In September 1383 he was abroad in the King's service,'
and in October 1394 was in the retinue of John of Gant in Acqui-
taine.* He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1396, and died in
the Holy City ; but his body was brought to England and depo-
sited on the south side of the chancel of Maidwcll Church, where
a monument, consisting of his etfigy in armour, widi the legs
across, his head supported by a horse's leg, and his shield charged
with Ids arms, Gules, a bend Argent between six martlets Or, still
remains.* By Joan daughter of Sir John Longueville of Little
Billing in Northamptonshire, Sir John Seyton iiad a son of the
same name, who was knighted, and was ancestor of the family of
Seyton of Maidwell Hall in that county. His deposition contains
nothing of interest either in relation to himself or to the contro-
versy, and al] the information which can be gained from it is, that
he had frequently served in the wars.
The arms of Sir John Seyton were, Gules, a bend Argent
between six martlets Or,*
SIMON MOIGNE, Esqutre. Although various pedigrees of S'«(
Moigne have been consulted, none of them notice a son of the name
' Itoli of Arms In the possession of ihe Rev. John Newling, and other authori-
tiea. A Roll of Arras lemp. Edw, II. assigns to "Sir Huge de Morieus" of Suf-
folk, "Azure, a iij foilea de mourea de Or." 8vo. 1828.
' Vincents Norlhamplonsliire in the College of Arms.
* Ciirle's Gascon RolLi, ii.143,144.
* Cute's Gascon Rolls, i. 179. ' Bridges' NorthamptOD, vol.ii. p.46.
* Roll of Armi in the possession of ihe R«t. Joha Newliog, and Seytou's
Monument.
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184 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib Thomas He Succeeded under a settlement made by his father to the
MOBISUZ. , ''
manors of Thorp Morieux, Gorges, and Brokehalle,^ and was
Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1367 and 1368.2 On the 28th
June in that year he witnessed the grant of the manor of Kentwell
by Thomas Syward and Joan his wife, the daughter and coheiress
of Sir Robert Gower, to her relative John Gower the Poet,' a cir-
cumstance which renders it probable that Morieux was personally
known to that celebrated person. In the Parliament which met at
Westminster in April 1376 he was one of the mainpernors for the'
appearance of Lord Latimer, who was accused of various offences
by the Commons.^ In the same month he was a Commissioner to
preserve the truce with France,* and in 1381 was made Constable
of the Tower of London for life.^ Sir Thomas Morieux must have
been a veteran soldier ; for in his deposition he said he had served
in divers battles, journeys, and expeditions in France, Gascony,
Brittany, Spain, and Scotland, including the Kings's last invasion
of Scotland in 1385; but his military reputation is proved by his
being Marshal of the army with which John of Gant went to Spain
in August in the following year,^ in consequence of which he
obtained letters of protection, dated 6th March 1386, wherein he
is thus described : — " Thomas Murreux Chivaler alias dictus
Thomas Morrous, vel Morrieux, Chivaler.''^ Froissart frequently
mentions him as having eminently distinguished himself in Spain,^
Suffolk, had free warren granted to him in his lands in Thorp, called for distinction
** Thorp Morieux." In the 7th Edw. II. a fine was levied between Hugh de
Murieus and John his son, and Edmund Peche and Margaret his wife, of the
manor and advowson of Felsham in Suffolk, to enure after the death of Edmund
and Margaret to Hugh and John, and the heirs of John. In the 6th Edw. III. Sir
Thomas, son of Hugh de Morieux, was owner of the manor of Felsham, and pre-
sented to the church of Felsham in the 9th of the same reign (Fin. 6 Edw. III. —
Lib. Instit. 2, f.74); and according to Martin, the arms of Morieux, Gules, a bend
Argent billett^ Sable, were in Felsham Church. This Thomas Morieux, who must
have been younger brother and heir of John, confirmed in the 9th Edw. III. (Vin-
cent's MS. n^ 88, f. 133,) to Ralph Sampson of Bretenham certain lands in He-
cham. He was probably the father of Sir Thomas Morieux the deponent
» Esch. 7 Edw. IV. n*» 34. * Rot. Claus.
' Ancient Charters in the British Museum, 56 G 42. See Retrospective Re-
view, New Series, vol. ii. p. 108. The deed is dated atMelford. *
• Rot. Pari. 50 Edw. III. vol. ii. p. 327. » Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 118.
• Calend. Rot Patent, p. 205-6. In July 1 382 Sir Thomas de Gy ssyng. Knight,
bequeathed to Sir Thomas Morieux a hauberk of steel, and appointed him one of
his executors. Harleian MS. 10. f.24. ^ Froissart par Buchon, x. 124.
• Foedera, iii. p' iii. p. 195.
^ Par Buchon^ tome x. pages 142,143. 146. 149. 180. 191. 335, 336.
1
SIR RICHARD 8CROPE. 187
time beyond the memory of man. He had never heard of the Sib Tboii:ij
said Sir Robert Orosvenor or of his ancestry, whence he was, or
whence he came, until the last expedition in Scotland with our
Lord the King.
Sir Thomas Morieux's arms were, Gules, a bend Argent bil-
letee Sable.'
SIR JOHN DE SETON, or SEVTON, was the eldest son s.« j<.«n u.
of Sir John Seyton of Draughton in Northamptonshire, by Bridget
daughter of Lord Basset of Sapcotc,- and was born about the year
1346. In September 1383 he was abroad in the King's service,'
and in October 1394 was in (he retinue of John of Gant in Acqui-
taine.'* He made a pilgrimage to Jerus^em in 1396, and died in
the Holy City ; but his body was brought to England and depo-
sited on the south side of the chancel of Maidwell Church, where
a monument, consisting of his effigy in armour, with the legs
across, his head supported by a horse's leg, and his shield charged
with his arms, Gutes, a bend Argent between six martlets Or, still
remains.' By Joan daughter of Sir John Longueville of Little
Billing in Northamptonshire, Sir John Seyton had a son of the
same name, who was knighted, and was ancestor of the family of
Seyton of Maidwell Hall in that county. His deposition contains
nothing of interest either in relation to himself or to the contro-
versy, and all the informalion which can be gained from it is, that
he had frequently served in the wars.
The arms of Sir John Seyton were. Gules, a bend Argent
between six martlets Or.*
SIMON MOIGNE, Esqiiibe. Although various pedigrees of SmoN Moio»»,
Moigne have been considted, none of them notice a son of the name
' Roll of Arms 'in Ihe possession of ihe Iter. John Newling, and other authori-
ties. A Roll of Aran lerop. Edw, II. assigns to " Sir Huge de Morieua" of Suf-
folk, " Azure, a iij foilesde raouresdeOr." Bvo. 1828.
' Vbcenl's Northamptonshire in the College of Aims.
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, li. 143, 144-
* Cane's Gascon Rolls, i. 179. ' Bridges' Northampton, vol. ii. p. 46.
' Roll of Arm» in the possession of the Rev. John Kewling, and Seyton's
Monument.
»b2
188
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Simon Moione, of Simon, and it would therefore be a waste of time to hazard con-
jectures about his parentage. Nor do the public records afford
information respecting him, for all which has been found is, that
on the 6th March 1386, by the description of " Simon Mone Es-
quire,^ he obtained letters of protection, being then in the reti-
nue of John King of Castile.^ Moigne deposed that he was forty -
six years of age, and had been armed thirty years, and had seen
Sir Richard Scrope armed in the disputed arms, and with them on
banners and pennons in divers battles, journeys, and expeditions,
as well as others of his lineage. The remainder of his deposition
was merely to the same purport as that of the preceding witnesses.
Edward
Beaucbamp,
Esq*
EDWARD BEAUCHAMP, Esquire. It is extremely dif-
ficult to identify an individual of the name of Beauchamp in the
fourteenth century, and the trouble which has been taken in this
instance for the purpose has been inefiectual ; for, of the numerous
pedigrees of Beauchamp which have been consulted, not one con-
tains the name of Edward. His deposition afibrds no clue by
which to ascertain his family ; and all which is known about him
is, that by the name of " Edward Beauchamp, Esquire,'^ he re-
ceived letters of protection on the 12th January 1386, being then
in the retinue of the King of Castile and Leon, going to Spain ; ^
and that on the 24th June 3 Hen. IV. 1402, a commission was
issued to him and others respecting the passage of pilgrims to the
city of Bordeaux beyond the river Garonde.*
He deposed that he had seen and known Sir Richard Scrope
and others of his family armed in the arms Azure, a bend Or, in
divers journeys and expeditions in which he had been, and never
heard to the contrary that the said arms belonged to Sir Richard
Scrope. Of Grosvenor, or of his ancestors, he never heard, until
the late expedition in Scotland.
William
Chbtwynde,
Esq.
WILLIAM CHETWYNDE, Esquire. Sir Philip Chet-
wynde of Ingestre in Stafibrdshire left issue by Alice daughter of
Sir Ralph de Grendon, William Chetwynde his son and heir,* who.
• Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 195.
» Fcedera, iii. p* iii. p. 190. ' Carte's Gascon Rolls, i. 188.
* Lodge's Irish Peerage, title Viscounts Chetwynde.
Sm RICHARD SCROPE. 189
it is presumed, was the Deponent. Towards the latter part of the WmuH
reign of Edward the Third, he was retained to serve John of esq.
Gant, as well in peace as in war, with a sjilary of ten marks. This
indenture having been lost, it was renewed in the 50th Edw. III.
and the allowance was increased to 10/. On the 12th January
1386, he received letters of protection, being then about to accom-
pany the King of Castile to Spain." In the 10th Ric. II. in con-
sideration of his services, the Duke of Lancaster granted him 10/.
per annum in addition, which was to be paid out of the rents of
the manor of Tutbury. Chetwynde was knighted soon after 1386,
and was Sheriff of Staffordshire in the llth Ric. II.- He died in
the 19th Ric. II. 139.5-6, and left by Aliva St. Paul his wife, who
survived him, and died in the 12th Hen. IV., a daughter Margaret,
wife of William Purefoy of Shireford in the county of Warwick,-
and two sons, Roger Chetwynde, who was of full age at the time
of his father's decease,' and married Elizabeth t'awardine, but
died without issue in the 20th Ric. II. ;* and Richard Chetwynde
his second son, the ancestor of the present Viscount Chetwynde
in Ireland, and who is now represented by his heir general Earl
Talbot, K.P.
Chetwynde deposed briefly to the effect that he had seen
Sir Richard Scrope and his relations bearing the arms Azure, a
bend Or, with differences, in various journeys and expeditions ;
that he believed the arms rightly belonged to them by descent,
having so heard from old knights and esquires ; and that lie knew
nothing of Grosvenor, nor of his ancestors, until the last expedition
in Scotland.
His arms were. Azure, a chevron between three mullets Or.'
JOHN BATHE, Esqiisb. The research employed with re- JinN B^tre,
spect to this individual, has been productive only of the following
' Fcedera, Lii. p' iii. p. 190. ' Lodge's Irish Peen^.
' Esch. 19 Ric. II. n» 14. and MS. marked C. 35. f. 9R. in the College of
Anns. Lodge slates, errooeausly, thatSirWilliam Chelwynde's sons were called
Richard aiid John.
" Esch. 20 Ric n. n» 137.
* Heralds' VisiUlions of Suffordshire. Tliese arms are also aliribmed lo Sir
William Chetwynde in Ihe contemporary Roll in the possession of (he Rev. John
Newling.
i
190
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
John Bathe,
F^Q.
meagre information. He was retained for life to serve John of
Gant, Duke of Lancaster,^ and may have been the John, son and
heir of Matthew de Bathe, who obtained a confirmation of the
manor of Rothsaye, with the advowson of the church in 1351 ;^
but of his lineage, nothing positive has been discovered. A family
of the name of Bathe, or Bathon, held lands in Devonshire as
early as the reign of Henry the Third, and bore for their arms
Ermine, a bend Gules.' In the 24th Edw. III. 1350, Eleanor
wife of John Holland, and daughter and heiress of Sir Andrew
Metsted, by Margaret daughter and heiress of Augustine de Ba-
thon, recovered the manor of Shepewas in that county, by a writ
of novel disseisin, from a Thomas de Bathe, but granted it to
Joan, who was the wife of the said Thomas, for life.^ It is most
probable that the Deponent was the John Bathe who was Mayor
of Bristol in May 1372.*
He deposed that he was sixty years of age, and had been
armed forty years; that he had seen and known Sir Richard
Scrope bearing the arms Azure, a bend Or, on his person, and
on banners and pennons, as well as others of his name and fa-
mily with differences, in various expeditions, battles, ' and jour-
neys; that during the whole time he had been armed, he never
saw any other man armed in those arms excepting Scrope and his
relatives; that he had never heard any knight or esquire speak of
any other pretensions, but that the right to the said arms had de-
scended to Sir Richard by direct line. Of Grosvenor he said, he
never saw him, nor heard of his being armed in those arms, nor of
any of his ancestors, until the last expedition in Scotland.
Hugh Watir-
TON, Esq.
HUGH WATERTON, Esquire, was the son of William Wa-
terton of Waterton in Lincolnshire by the daughter and heiress of
Thomas Methley of Methley in Yorkshire, Esq. The time of his
birth is nowhere mentioned, but he was probably a young man in
' Registnim Johannis Duels Lancastris.
* Calend. Rot Patent. 26 Edw. III. p. 1 61 . Matthew Bathe obtained a grant of
that manor from Sir Hugh Lacy, which the King confirmed in the 7th Edw. Ill,
Calend. Rot. Pat. p. 117 b.
' Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p. 87. 191. 232. 320. 469.
* Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p. 379.
* Registnim Johannis Ducis Lancastri».
S[R RICHARD SCROPE.
191
138G, shortly before which year, he waa retained for life to serve Huqb
John of Gant Duke of Lancaster.' He was knighted previously ""*'
to 1398, as in October in that year, by the description of " Hugh
de Waterton, Chivaler," he was attorney for Henry Duke of
Hereford, during the Duke's absence from this country.'^ On the
1st October 1401, he was one of the " Custodes" of the King's
son, Thomas of Lancaster, Lieutenant of Ireland, then a minor,
going on the King's service to Ireland.^ Sir Hugh was a Com-
missioner to negociate the marriage of the Prince of Wales with
the daughter of the King of Denmark in May 1402 ;* and the
confidence which Henry the Fourth placed in him was more
strongly evinced in July following, when he was appointed Keeper
of Berkhamstead, and Governor of his Majesty's two daughters,
Joan and Philippa, as well as of their cousins, the Karl of March
and his brother, who were to remain there until the King's return
from Wales.* In November 140.3, he was a Commissioner for
deciding a question relative to the unjust detention of an hostage
of the Count de Denia, late prisoner of Robert Hauley, Esquire;*
and was appointed a member of the King's Privy CouncO in 1405.^
Sir Hugh Waterton died in July 1409,* and by Ellen his wife,
daughter of Robert Mowbray, Esq.^ left two daughters his co-
heirs, 1. Blanch, who was bving and upwards of forty years of
age in 1420, and then the wife of Sir Robert Challons; and 2.
Elizabeth, who married John ap Harry of Fusion in Hereford-
shire, and died before 1430. Elizabeth ap Harry had two sons, 1.
Hugh, who died without issue, and 2. Richard ap Harry, who
made proof of his age in the 9th Hen. VI.; but it appears from
the Inquisition on the death of Katherine wife of Sir Roger
Leche, in 8th Hen. V., that the said Katherine was the widow of
the Deponent, as she is stated to have jnarried, first, John Brome-
wich, and secondly, Hugh Waterton. It is not mentioned who
' Registrum Johannis Ducia LiincastriEe.
* Ftsdet», ill. p' iv. p. 149> Query if he was not the Moosire Hugh War'ion
who wasoneof JohnofGant'seieculorsin 1397. — Nichob'a Royal Wills, p. 163.
' Fcedcra, iv. p» i. p. 16, * Fcedera, ir. p'i. p. 2B. ' Fudera, iv- p' i. p. 32.
' Fodeia, iv. p' i. pages 58 and 63. ' Coiton. MS. Cleopatra, F. iii. f. so.
• Esch. la Hen. IV. n* 18. and Each. 8 Hen. V. a" 93.
■ Pedigreea in Bimlce's Yorkshire in the CoUe^ of Amu, f. 3 0. and Rot Fin.
9 Hen. V. n. 31.
192 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
were her heirs. Sir HugVs will was dated on the 1st, and was
proved at Lambeth on the 7th July 1409.
He deposed to the same effect as the preceding witness. His
arms were, Barry of six. Ermine and Gules, three crescents Sable.'
Sir Walter SIR WALTER BLOUNT, Knight. This witness has been
immortalized by Shakespeare as the " warlike Blunt,'^ whose
" great deservings and good name" ^ were the envy of his contem-
poraries. He was the third son of Sir Walter Blount of Soding-
ton, in the county of Worcester ; but the eldest son by his second
wife Eleanor, daughter and heiress of John Beauchamp of Somer-
setshire,' by the daughter and heiress of Brett. His
services and merits were very conspicuous; and it is evident from
his deposition that he had been present in many battles and expe-
ditions. He was honoured with the confidence and esteem of John
of Gant, as well as of his son King Henry the Fourth; and
enjoyed the reputation which the great dramatic poet has ascribed
to him.
In March 1378, Blount obtained letters of protection, being
then in the retinue of the Duke of Lancaster " on the sea ;'' * and
similar letters were issued to liim on the 6th March 1386, he being
about to serve in the army with which that prince was going to
Spain.^ Between the 3rd and 7th Ric. II. he was retained to
serve Lancaster for life,^ and in April 1393, he was joined in a
commission with Sir William Par and Dr. Henry Bowet, Arch-
deacon of Lincoln, to treat for peace with the King of Spain .^
The Duke of Lancaster's attachment to Sir Walter Blount was
particularly evinced on two occasions. In February 1378, he
granted to Blount and Dame Sanchia his wife, for their services
* Brooke's Yorkshire in the College of Anns, f. 390. * Henry IV. Part I.
' Sir Alexander Croke, in his History of the Blount fiunily, p. 170 et seq., one
of the very few valuable Family Histories that have appeared in this country, has
followed the Pedigrees, which assert that Eleanor Beauchamp was the widow of
John Meriet, and sister and coheiress of John third Baron Beauchamp of Hache.
Various inquisitiones post mortem tend to prove that this is an error, and the state-
ment in the text stands on the authority of an elaborate Pedigree of Beauchamp in
the Harleian MS. 1559. f. 195.
♦ Foedera, iii. p' iii. p. 74. * FoBdera,iii. p' iii. p. 194.
° Registrum Johannb Ducis Lancastrian. ' Foedera, iii. p* iv. p. 85.
UR RICHARD SCUOPK.
193
to him and Constance his Duchess, a life rent of 100 marks, pay-
able out of the manor of Hcslingdon in Derbyshire;' and by his
will, dated 3rd February 1397, he bequeathed hiro a hundred
marks, and appuinted him one of his executors. -
Sir Walter Blount was ranger of the forest of Needwood ; '
and in the Ist Hen. IV. represented the county of Derby in Par-
liament.' He was banner-bearer to Henry the Fourth ; and whilst
executing the duties of liis office, and wearing the royal coat
armour, gallantly fell at the battle of Shrewsbury on the 22nd
of July 1402:«
" A galUut kniglit he waa, his name was Blunt,
Semblablj funiished like the King himself."
Blount made his Will on the 16th December 1401, which was
proved on the 1st of August 1403.' His wife was Sanchia de
Ayala, daughter of Don Diego Gomez de Toledo, Alcalde Mayor
of Toledo, by Ines de Ayala, a Spanish lady of good family.*
She probably came to this country as an attendant on Constance
of Castile: in 1381 the Duke of Lancaster presented her with
various articles as a new year's gift ;'' and it is evident from
other circumstances, that she was a favourite both with him and
the Duchess. Her manor-house of Barton in Derbyshire was
threatened to be destroyed by rioters in ihe 11th Hen. IV:'
she made her Will, in 1415, and died in 1418.' By her. Sir
Walter Blount had four sons: 1. Sir John Blount, K.G. who
died without issue; 2. Sir Thomas, father of Walter, first Lord
Montjoy; 3. James, ancestor of the Blounts of Hertfordshire;
4. Peter: and two daughters; Constance, who was probably the
god-daughter of Constance Duchess of Lancaster, and married
John Sutton Lord Dudley ; and Ann, the wife of Thomas Griffith
of Wycfinor, in the county of Salop,'
I Vinceot'sMS. n'l.f. 238. ' Nichols's Rojal WjUs, p. 159. 163.
* Croke's Blount family.
' Dugdale's Oatoiiage, i. p. 519. and Leiand's CoUectaaea, i. 465.
' See an elaborate account of her aocestors and of herself in Croke's Uislory
of the family of Blount.
* Regislnim Johaonis Ducis Lancastrie.
' Rot. Pari. iii. 631. In the reign of Henry the Fourth she presented a pen-
lion lo the King, in which she described herself ^s '■ Zanchee qua fuit uxor
Walteri Blount."
194
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Walter
Blount.
Sir Walter Blount deposed that he had seen and known Sir
Richard Scrope armed in divers expeditions and journeys in the
coat armour Azure, a bend Or, as well as many of his lineage
in the same arms with differences ; and that the said Sir Richard
was the possessor [possessioner] of the said arms until the dispute
commenced between the said Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert
Grosvenor, of which Sir Robert Grosvenor he never heard ; nor
had he ever seen him until the said dispute began in Scotland.
His arms were, Barry nebuly Or and Sable.
Sir Thomas
Erpingham.
• SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, K. G. and Knight Ban-
neret. A volume, instead of the very limited space to which the
notices of the Deponents must be confined, would "be necessary to
do justice to the splendid services of this distinguished personage.
He was the son and heir of Sir John Erpingham of Erpingham in
Norfolk, who died 1 August 1370, and was born in or before 1355.
Sir Thomas obtained letters of protection and general attorney,
in consequence of being about to accompany John of Gant to
Spain, in March and April 1386,^ by whom he had shortly before
been retained for life.* Erpingham devoted himself to the inte-
rests of the House of Lancaster, and was one of the Commissioners
appointed by Parliament to receive Richard the Second's resigna-
tion of the Crown.* He was present at the execution of Sir Tho-
mas Blount, Sir Bennet Cely, and some of the other conspirators
against Henry the Fourth ; and the curious but disgusting account
of their deaths, by a contemporary writer, creates a most unfavour-
able opinion of Erpingham's humanity.* Henry rewarded his ser-
vices by creating him his Vice Chamberlain and Warden of the
Cinque Ports ; by giving him the Order of the Garter on the death
of the Earl of Warwick in 1400 ; and by enriching him with
grants of lands. In 1404, the duties of Marshal of England were
entrusted to him ; and the Commons specially recommended the
consideration of the services of Erpingham and others, " qui leur
Diystrent en aventure ovesque nostre Seigneur le Roy a son venue
* Fcedera, iii. p* iii. pages 195. 197.
* Registrum Johannis Ducis Lancastrix. ' Rot. Pari. iii. 416 b.
* A Chronicle of events between 1377 and 1400, in the Royal Library at Paris,
MS. No. 9745*— printed in the fifteenth volume of Mons. Buchon's edition of
Froissart.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 196
en Engleterre,"' to the King, They repeated tlieir ptition two Sis
years afterwards, on which occasion, tliey siud, that he had per-
formed " moll bone service" to his Majesty, and " plusours foitz
s'ad rays en aventure pur I'onur et profyle du Koy et de Roi-
alme."- Within a few months, Sir Thomas was appointed a
member of the King's Council ;' and two years afterwards, 1406,
he was one of the sureties for the appearance of Sir Edward
Hastings in the Court of Chivalry, in the cause between Hastings
and Reginald Lord Grey of Kuthyn for the arms of Hastings.
Erpingham deposed in that trial that he was upwards of fifty
years of age ; that he knew the grandfather of Hastings, whose
father bore the arms of Hastings with a label, in Richard the
Second's expedition into Scotland, as well as at the relief of Brest,
and in the expedition into Spain ; and he added, that he had seen
the arms of Hastings in Prussia at a place called the House of
Our Lady.
Sir Thomas Erpingham was frequently employed on diplo-
matic missions abroad,' and as a Commissioner to arrange various
afi'airs, both by Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth-* In
the expedition into France in the summer of 1415, the vener-
able Erpingham served with peculiar distinction, having under
his banner twenty men at arms and sixty horse archers. After
assisting at the capture of Harfleur, he accompanied the army
on its march towards Calais; and the command of the archers
being entrusted to him at the battle of Agincourt, he added con-
siderably to his fame by his prowess oii that glorious day. He is
recorded to have attended chapters of the Order of the Garter in
1419, 1420, and in May 1421,'' and survived until Sunday next
after the feast of St. John the BaptList, 27th June 1428, when
he closed liis distinguished career, aged about seventy-five. Sir
Thomas was twice married : first, to Joan " the beautiful daugh-
ter" of Sir William Clopton, of Clopton in Suffolk,' and secondly,
after 1409, to Joan daughter of Sir Richard Walton, Knight,
■ RoL Pari. iii. p. 533. ' Rot. Pari. iii. p. 577.
= CoitOQ. MS. Cleopiini, F. iii. f. 50.
' Fiedeta, iv. p' i.29. liS. 123 to 128. pad p' iii. 113.
> FiEdera, iv. p> i. pages 41. 69. 91.
* Anstis' RegiRlei of the Garter, ii. pages 65. 70. 73.
' Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo. vol. vi. p. 415.
1
196 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas sister and heiress of John Walton of Wyvenhoe in Essex, Esquire,
and widow of Sir John Howard;* but neither by her, who died in
1425, nor by his first wife, had he any issue.^ His heir was his
nephew Sir William Phelip, son of his sister Julian, by Sir John
Phelip, Knight ; and he is now represented by the Earl of Abing-
don and Miles Stapleton of Carlton in Yorkshire, Esquire, the
coheirs of the Baronies of Beaumont, and Lovel of Tichmersh.
A very amusing story is related' of one of Sir Thomas Er-
pingham^s wives, who having excited the concupiscence of a friar,
acquainted her husband with the holy father^s frailty, and exposed
him to the vengeance of her lord ; but the anecdote is rendered
too familiar by the humorous poetical version of it,* to justify its
being more than alluded to.
Sir Thomas Erpingham deposed that he had seen and known
Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, and many others of
his lineage armed in the same arms, with differences, the which
arms were descended by right inheritance to the said Sir Richard,
as their ancestors, and old men have said. As to Sir Robert Gros-
venor, he had no knowledge of him, or his arms.
Erpingham's arms were. Vert, an orle of martlets, and an
escocheon, Argent.*
SirJohk sir JOHN WHITE is presumed to have been the son
White. ^^ Robert White of Shottesham in the county of Norfolk, Esquire,
whose ancestor, Bartholomew le Wite, possessed property in Stoke
Neyland in Suffolk, in the early part of the reign of Edward the
First. ^ Between the 3rd and 7th Ric. II. he was retained for life
by John of Gant,' and by the appellation of " John White,
• Esch. 3 Hen. VI. n» 19.
' Blomefield, in his History of Norfolk, 8vo. vol. vi. p. 415, says that Joan
Clopton was Erpingham 's second wife, and that he had by her a daughter Julian,
who married Sir John Phelip of Dennington in Suffolk, Knight, but the Inquisi-
tiones post mortem prove that both these statements are erroneous.
^ Heywood's " itnaikeion, or nine Books of various history concerning Wo-
men," 1624, fol. p. 253. which is copiously cited in Blomefield's Norfolk, 8vo.
vol.vi. p. 415. * Colman's " Broad Grins.''
» Blomefield's Norfolk, folio, vol. iv. p. 377, from the window of the church
of Folsham in Norfolk.
• Blomefield's Norfolk, folio, vol. iii. p. 345.
^ Registrum Johaunis Duels Lancastris.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 197
Knight," he received letters of protection, dated 12th January f
1386, being about to serve under the Duke in Spain.' In 1401
he was named in a commission by Henry the Fourth for raising
an aid to marry his Majesty's eldest daughter. He was living at
Tunstall in Suffolk with Margery his first wife in 1403; at which
time he also held the manor of Orford in that county. Sir John
White died in May 1407, as his Will, which was dated at Norwich
on the 8th, was proveii on the 23rd of the same month at that
place." He was twice married : by his first wife, Margaret, he
had Robert White of Shotesham, Esquire; and by his second
wife, Joan, or Juban, daughter of Peter Hovel of Swannington,
widow of John Butt of Norwich, he left a son John White of
Fretenham, Lord of the Manor of Maiden I on in Norfolk, whose
daughter and heiress, Margaret, married Giles Saint I-owe, Ksq.^
White stated in his deposition, that he had seen Sir Richard
Scrope and others of his family bearing the arms Azure, a bend
Or, in divers expeditions and journeys, and that the said arms
had, according to public report, descended to Scrope by right line
of inheritance from beyond the time of memory. Of Grosvenor,
he said, he knew nothing until the last expedition into Scotland
with the King.
Sir John White's arms were. Gules, a chevron between three
boars' heads couped Argent ; a bordure of the second."
THOMAS DRIFFIELD, Esquire. Of the parentage of Tho
this individual, nothing has been discovered. As he says he had
been armed for forty years in 1386, he must have been born
about 1326. The first notice of him is, that he was in the
retinue of John of Gant "on the sea" in March 1378, when he
received letters of protection ;* and similar letters were issued to
him on the 26th January 1385, he being then in the King's ser-
vice, in the retinue of Ferdinand, Master of the Order of Knights
of St. James of Portugal in that kingdom ; * on the 12th January
1386, in consequence of his going to Spain with John of Gant;*
■ F<cdeF
I. p. 190.
' Additional MS. in the Britisli Museum, ii" 6076. A copy of it occurs in ihe
Registry at Lambeth,
* Blomefield's Norfolli, folio, vol. iii. p. 345. ' F<Edera,iii. p' iii. p. 7-4.
' Fildera, iii. p' iii. p. 176. ' Focdcra, iii. p' iii. p. 190.
198 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Thomas Drif- and again on the 5tb July 1387, at which time he was still an
FIELD, Esq. Esquire, and with that Prince in Spain.^ Excepting that his name
occurs in the list of knights and esquires who were retained for life
to serve the Duke of Lancaster as well in peace as in war,^ the
above facts present all the information which has been ascertained
respecting him. He deposed, that he had been armed forty years,
during which time he had well known Sir Richard Scrope, and
seen him armed in the arms Azure, a bend Or, as well as others
of his family with differences, in divers battles, journeys, and
expeditions ; and on no occasion in his life had he heard to the
contrary until the last expedition into Scotland with the King,
* that any other man claimed these arms, but had often heard
that Sir Richard was descended by right line from a race entitled
to the said arms from time beyond memory. Of Sir Robert
Grosvenor, or of his arms, he never heard either in the old wars
or the new, until the last invasion of Scotland.
Sir Nicholas SIR NICHOLAS GREY, Knight. It may perhaps be
conjectured, from his baptismal name, that he was a member of
the family of Grey of Barton in Rydall in the county of York.
Sir Nicholas Grey of Barton, a younger son of Henry Lord Grey
of Codnor, by Eleanor daughter of Hugh Courtenay, Earl of
Devon, died in the Ist Edw. III., leaving Nicholas, his eldest son,
six years of age, who made his Will and died in the 34th Edw. III.'
and Edmond a younger son. The Deponent may have been a
son of the said Edmond afterwards Sir Edmond de Grey ; but his
name does not occur in either of the numerous pedigrees which
have been referred to, nor has any evidence been found by which
to affiliate him. Excepting that he received letters of protection
on the 6th March, lt386, being then in the retinue of the King of
Castile and Leon, and going to Spain,^ his deposition contains all
which is positively known about him.
He deposed that he was forty years of age ; that he had seen
Sir Richard Scrope armed in the arms Azure, a bend Or, and
many others of his name and family in the same arms with differ-
' Fcedera, iii. p' iv. p. 14. * Registnim Johannis Ducis LaDcastriae.
' Vincent's Baronage in the College of Arms, f. 371, and Esch. 1 Edw. III. n** 13.
* Foedera, iii. p' iii. p. 1 95.
SIB RICHARD SCROPE. 199
ences, the which arras had descended to Scrope in a right line,
as he had heard from old lords, knights, and esquires, and as was
commonly reported throughout the realm of England. Of Gros-
venor, or of his arms, he knew nothing until the late expedition
in Scotland with the King.
SIR THOMAS REMPSTON, K.G. It is impossible, in s
the following brief account of this eminent individual, to do more
than mention the occasions on wliich he particularly distinguished
himself, and the important offices which he filled. From these
facts it will be evident that his merits were extremely great, and
that he is entitled to a place among the worthies of England-
He was descended from an ancient family which was seated in
Nottinghamshire as early as the reign of Henry the Third, and
is supposed to have been the son of a John de Rcmpston who
was living in 1346.' At the time when he was examined in the
Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, he seems to have been young ;
and he merely stated that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope and
others of his family armed in the disputed bearings, which
arms had descended to them by right of inheritance, as he had
heard from elderly persons. Of Grosvenor, he said, he had no
knowledge ; and as he does not allude to any expedition in which
he had served, and as no previous notice of him has been found, it
may be inferred that be had then newly commenced his career in
arms. During the reign of Richanl the Second, he served in most
of the military expeditions that were undertaken ; and on the ac-
cession of Henry the Fourth, several high offices were entrusted to
him. In 1400 he was Steward of the King's Household ;'■ on the
20th April 1401, he was made Admiral of the Fleet in the west and
south parts of England,' which situation he held so late as May
1403;'' and in July 1401 he was appointed a conservator of the
truce with France.* Soon afterwards, the King granted him the
Constableship of the Tower of London.^ On the 1st of November
1401, he was selected, with others, to settle the ransom of John
late King of France,' and in April 1403 was one of the ambassa-
' Thorolon's History of Noltingham shire, 4W. vol.i. p. 59.
' lloL Pal. I Hen. IV. m. 16, ' Rol. Pari- "i. 512.
' Ftsdeni, iv. pt i. p.5i. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, vol. ii. p. 181.
• KoL Pat. 1 Hen. IV. m. 3. ' Fcedera, iv, p' i. p. 17.
200 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas dors by whom a peace with France was concluded in June follow-
I^£NPSTON
ing.^ In 1404 Rempston was nominated a member of the King^s
Privy Council,^ and in the same year the Commons recommended
the consideration of the services which Rempston and others had
rendered, on the King^s accession, to his consideration,^ they hav-
ing landed with Henry at Ravenspur previously to the dethrone-
ment of Richard the Second. Sir Thomas was elected a Knight
of the Garter about the 1st Hen. IV., having succeeded to the
eighth stall on the Prince's side on the death of Sir John Bour-
chier ;** and received various grants of lands from the Crown.
Sir Thomas Rempston'*s life was terminated by one of those
accidents which are still common. He was drowned, on the 31st
October 1406,* by the upsetting of a boat in endeavouring to shoot
through London Bridge at an unfavourable time of tide, on his
way to the Tower, of which he continued Constable until his
demise.^ The particulars of his death are thus detailed in the
Coroner's inquest on his body. On Monday the Ist November,
8 Hen. IV. 1406, the Sheriffs and Coroner of the City of London
were informed '* that one Thomas Rempston, Knight, lay dead in
" the Parish of All Saints in Dowgate Ward, upon a wharf called
" Therdeswharfe.**^ The officers consequently proceeded to the
spot, saw there Sir Thomas'*s body, and held an inquest on it;
whereby it was found, that " on Sunday the last of October the
^' said Thomas Rempston got into a boat with his servants at
" Paul''s Wharf in the ward of Baynard, intending to row under
* " London Bridge to the Tower ; that the tide being strong and
against them, the boatmen told him they dared not row under
the bridge, when he commanded them to proceed on pain of
losing their heads." In endeavouring to pass, the boat ran
against one of the piles of the bridge, which Rempston tried to
take hold of; and in doing so, he upset the boat, and was thrown
into the water and drowned. The Jury added that he was the
cause of his own death. The inquisition farther stated, that on
» Foedera, iv. p* i. p. 44. 46. » Cotton. MS. Cleopatra, F. in. f. 50.
' Rot. Pari. iii. p. 533.
* Windsor Tales in the Appendix to Ashmole, Order of the Garter.
* Rot. Pari. iv. p. 319, 320. His death is noticed in some proceedings relative
to Thomas Lord Roos. * Foedera, iv. p' i. p. 104.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 801'
the 27th of September preceding, he was godfather to Thomas Sm Tno«
Lord Roos.' By Margaret, who died very aged on the 2lHt April
1454, widow of Godfrey Foljambe of Okebi-ook in Derbyshire,- and
daughter and heiress of Sir Payne Villers of Kinalton in Notting-
hamshire,^ Rempston left issue a son, Sir Thomas Rempston,*
whose homage was respited on the 19th November 1425/ He must
however have been of age long before that lime, as he served in
the expedition into France in 1415, with eight men-at-arms and
twenty-four foot-archers; and, after assisting at the capture of
Harfleur, partook of the honours of Agincourt,'' In 1418 he was
at the siege of Rouen, and was present at tlie greater part of the
battles and sieges in France during the reign of Henry the Sixth.
He was taken prisoner by Monsieur Tanguy de Chastell about the
year 1435,' and died 15th October 1458, leaving by Alice his wife,
the daughter and heiress of Thomas Bekering, Esq.^ by Isabel,
sister and coheiress of Sir John Loudham, three daughters his
coheirs ; namely, Elizabeth his eldest daujghter, who married John
Cheyney, Esq.'J, and by him had a son, Sir Thomas Clieyney,
whose daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married Thomas Lord
Vans of Harroden. Isabel, Sir Thomas Rempston's second daugh-
ter, married Sir Brian Stapleton, Knight.a and is now represented
by Miles Stapleton of Carlton in the county of York, Esq., the
eldest coheir of the Baronies of Beaumont, and Lovel of Tich-
mersh. Margaret, the third daughter, was the wife of Richard
Bingham, junior, Ksquire.^
' Ryley's Ptacila Parliamenlaria, Appendix, p. 675.
* Esch, 32 Hen. VI. n" 7. In the inquisition on her decease in thai year she
is called ihe late wife of Sir Thomas Ilempslon ; and il is stated that she held cer-
tain landa in Derbyshire, " ex relatione Godfridi Foljambe, quondam viri sui," the
reversion of which was in Sir WiUiaoi Humplon, Knight, who was the son of Sir
Robert Plumpfon of Plumpton in Yorkshire, by Alice daughter and heiress of
Godfrey Foljambe by the .said Margaret. In the county of Notts, she held the
manor of Amall, to which her son Sir Thomas Rempston was heir.
* Pedigree of Villers in the Towneley MSS, and in Nichols' Leicestershire,
iii. 197.
' Esch. 33 Hen. VI. n" 7. Rot. Claus. 4 Hen. IV. and 7 Hen. IV. and Hot.
Pari. iv. 488-9.
» Thorolon'sHiat. ofNottmgham,ontheanaiorily ofRot. Fin. 4 Hen. Vl.m. 1.
" History of the Battle of Agincourt. ' Rot. Pari, iy. 48B-9.
' Esch. 4 Hen. VI. n" 25. ' Esch. 37 Hen. VI. n" 14.
VOL. II. 3 u
1
(
302 DEPOXxyrs lx favocr of
The am» of Sir Tbomas Rempston were. Af^<ent. a. cfaevnat
SaUe ; in the dextor cantoa a cinqoi^jil of the lasc |aaced of the
field.
SIR ROBERT MORLET. Kxkht. Robm second Lisd
Morli^ had by Jem his aecood wife two sonsw Henry Mflriey ,
wfai> was fifteen years old at hi» fatii^:» death in 1360« aid B<»-
bert the depcxient*^ who^ it may be presumed, was bom abmit
the Tear 1348L As earlr 9& 13S7y he was in the retiniie of Ed-
ward the Black Prince in Acquitaine, and received lettors at
protection.^ By the deacripdon of *^ Robertas Morleye, ]0ei^
junior, de Com* XorfT^** he obtained fflniTar letters oa the 12lh
April I3i)6w in consequence of being about to serre under Jofan
of Gant in Spoin.^ Sir Robert Moriey died in I^QI>^ beings then
sefised ot Framsdai in SuiK>IIu and Modey and T^mn^ in Xcv-^
foIk> He was twice married : first to Joan ; and iecondlT* be^
fixe the 4th Richaini II. to Sybilla daughtiar and cofaeire!» of Sir
Tbomas Felton. Km§:ht^ who was living in choc year* and then
twenty-'three years ohL^ By his first wife he had a son Sir Robert
Morky^ sged twenty-^eren in 1^90^* who died in I41J*. and l^ Sir
Thomas Xorley his son and heir. He died in 141 u leaving his
daughter Margarec then a chihi one year oId«. his heir. :3fee
married Sir GeoiEreT RatdiiSe» Eniehc and had issue, who left
::Mr Robert Moriey ^:^ depositzon confirmed the stacemesits of
the preceding wttnesses as to tiie usage oi the disputed arms by
Sir Richard Scrope and his fiunily^ whiciu Moriey ^aid» he had
heard firom his old relatives had de^*ended to Scrape by eight line
Each. U £«iw. HL !x^ :51. J<iaD tiwir nutfaer iied die vear b^re iu-r hu»-
biuui, muneiy, via Muoiiav jibetr die tiasc m St. Thumaii die Apustk t isa. gqpw
J3 E«iw. til. imi ir Eviw. LIL a"* -kT.
*^ Each. U Kic tl. ir* iS. ' Esch. -k Ear. EL t* 22.
' Gnajpjnr Batdii& ot Fnun»ieii «n jtT*iom-a» Hatviiiit^. -in* icm jt SirOtsrf-
Wf Bau^JBi ^ni MaiVjaniC Moriey^ '.«al EIiaUhKh it» oau^mer ixni wie iuiiressy
whu Tojurx^ Chnstopiiisr SpviiiBin oi 'Stumn m Xocmik. ElizabifiUi >o«4iinn, tiicar
jsui^ter ;imi beues^ wa» tii«» vvtis Jt Eamumi D^tiuuk <n Wijimtf^e^ ji ^fonbik
Ji iJiH}. jmi bai txiur vdouidrea dhm living vt£. Chnstupiuir, Edmunu, Thuii&b>
1
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 203
of inheritance- Of Grosvenor he knew nothing, nor of his arms,
until the late expeditityi in Scotland.
Morley's arms were, Argent, a lion rampant Sable, crowned Or.'
GEOFFREY BUGG, of West Leke in the county of Not- ^J";""'
tingham. Esquire, was the second son of Geoffrey Biigg, the second
son of Ralph Bugg, Lord of the manor of Bingham in that
county, and was born in the year 1338. He married Margaret
daughter and co-heiress of Robert Fowcher of Champagne by
Margaret sister and eventually heiress of Sir William Champagne,
of Thurleston in Leicestershire,^ and by her bail three sons: 1.
Richard, 2. Walter, and 3. Geoffrey Bugg. The latter had a
son, Edmund Bugg, whose only son Baldwin Bugg' died with-
out issue, in the 14th Henry VI. leaving his sister Margaret
the wife of William Turvile his heir,' who married secondly Sir
Reginald Moton.*
Bugg deposed that he was forty-eight years of age, and chiefly
to the same purport as the preceding witness ; adding that he had
heard say, at the time of his first being armed, that Sir Richard
Scrope had been armed in these arms in many great expeditions,
battles, and journeys, and achieved great honour in the same arras ;
and that he had heard from old knights and esquires, that the said
arms had descended to Scrope in direct line. He had never
heard, in the places where he had been armed, aught concerning
Grosvenor until the last expedition in Scotland.
The arms of Bugg were. Or, on a fess Sable three water bougets
Argent.*
THOMAS CROPHYLL, Es«irmfi, was probably a younger J^™**^^
brother of Sir John Crophyll of Leicestersbire, Knight, who died Ew.
■ Heralds' Visitations of Norfolk.
* Thoroloo's Nolls, p. 24, and Esch. 5 Hie. 11. n» 50, cpo the death of Maigaret
Ijiiiy Sutne.
' Eich. 14 Hen. VI, n» 19. The heir male of Richard Turvile and Margaret
Bugg waa Edwaid Turvile, Hector of Thuilestoa, who died about the middli: of
the last century, leaving Eliiflbeth his aisler and heir, who died unmarried in 1T7G.
' Esch. 23 Hen. VI, n" 17. Sir Reginald Molon died 1445, leaving by Mai^ret
Bugg two daughiets and coheirs, vii. Elizabeth, who married Ralpli Pole of Had-
burne, co. Derby, and Anne, who nutrried William Grimsby ; from both of whom
there are numerous descendanli. ' Thoroton's History of NoltiDgtiamshire.
I
■m
204 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Thomas ^ ^j^^ ly^jj jy^, jj^ leaving Agnes daughter of his eldest son
Esq. Thomas Crophyll^ his grand-daughter and heiress, then twelve
years of age and the wife of Sir John Devereux.* According to
his deposition, which contains all that is known of him, Thomas
Crophyll must have been bom about 1366, as he said he had been
armed twenty-four years. He corroborated the statements of the
former witnesses as to having seen Sir Richard Scrope armed in
his arms in divers great expeditions, battles, and journeys ; and
added, that he had seen the said arms with diiFerences, in glass and
paintings put in churches as memorials by Sir Richard, and for
his ancestors in certain parts of England, depicted on tombs in
which they lay interred from time immemorial. Of Grosvenor he
had neither seen nor heard, nor of his ancestors, neither in the old
wars nor in the new, until the last expedition into Scotland.
The arms of Crophyll were. Argent, a saltire Gules, fretty Or.^
William de WILLIAM DE LA HALLE, EsQuiRE. The name of this
person has not been found in any other record than the Scrope
Roll ; but it is evident from his deposition that he was a veteran
soldier and had served in most of Edward the Third's expeditions.
He deposed that he was sixty years of age, and had been armed
forty-five years; that he had seen the said arms borne by Sir
Richard Scrope and many others of his name and lineage, with
diflferences, in France, Gascony, Spain, and Scotland, as branches,
and had achieved great honour in the same arms in many great
battles and expeditions in the time of Henry Duke of Lancaster;
that the said arms descended in direct line to the said Sir Richard,
as he knew from others, lords, knights, and esquires, who are old,
and never heard otherwise than that the said Sir Richard and his
progenitors are and have always been in peaceable possession of
the same from time of which memory runneth not, and as common
voice and fame testify. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor he had not heard
all the time he had borne arms in company of Henry, first Earl,
then Duke, of Lancaster, in any expedition either in France, Gas-
' He died in the 5th Ric. II. Esch. eod. ann. n<> 16, when Agnes his daughter
was found to be his heiress and aged nine years. ' £sch. 7 Kic. II. n^ 23.
' In a Roll of Arms temp. Edw. III. tliis coat is assigned to a Sir Ralph
Crophill. 8vo. 1829, p. 30.
sm iuchard scrope. 205
cony, Spain, or Scotland; nor of any one of his name bearing these
amis, until the last expedition in Scotland with the King.
SIR THOMAS LEEDS, Knicht, was the son of Peter s.i.T,io
Leeds of the county of York, grandson of Sir Roger Leeds. He
was born about the year 1338, and by the description of " Tho-
mas dc Ledes de Hillom" he obtained letters of protection on
the 9th March 1378, being then alwut to go abroad in the
King's service.' The time of his death has not been ascertained.
By Elizabeth, or Eleanor, daughter of Sir John Hotham of
Scorbroiigh in Yorkshire, he had a son. Sir William Leeds of
Northall in that county, who married Jennet daughter of Henry
Savile of Eland, Esquire. Their son, Thomas Leeds, married
Ebzabeth daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton of Plumpton, Knight,
and, according to some petUgrees, left children, whilst other pedi-
grees state that he died issueless.^
Sir Thomas Leeds deposed to the same effect as the preceding
witnesses ; and it appears that he had been armed for thirty years;
that he had served in France, Gascony, Spain, and Scotland ; and
that he was present in the last expedition in Scotland under the
King in per.son.
His arms were. Argent, a fess Gules, between three eagles dis-
played Sable.'
SIR THOMAS FYCHET. This knight was the son of Sir Sib Thc
John Fychet, the representative of an ancient family which was
seated at Spaxton in Somersetshire as early as the reign of Henry
the Second.* It is not stated when he was bom, but he was a
knight in 1356, in which year he received letters of protection,
being then in the retinue of the Prince of Wales in Gascony.*
Early in the next year he must have been in the wars in Scotland;
for his pristmer, Alexander de Menteth, obtained a safe conduct,
dated 8th July 1357. to come into England to Fychet, with four
knights and their attendants.^ Letters of protection were grantetf
to him in April 1381, he being then abrnad in the King's ser-
' Rot. Franc. 1 Ric. II. p. 11, m. 19.
• Brooke's CoUecliona for Yorkshiie, in Ihe College of Arms.
» Philipol'i Yorkshire, fo. 250. ' Collinson'a SomerseUhire, vol. i. p. 243.
» Ftedera, iii. p' i, p. 131. * Kot.Scoc. 31 Edw. 111. m. 7.
206 DDPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas viqe,^ and again in March 1386, being then about to serve under the
vcHET. King of Castile in Spain.* A few days afterwards he was com-
manded to levy forty carpenters and masons in the counties of
Devon, Somerset, and Cornwall, for that expedition.' Sir Thomas
Fychet died in 1391-2,* and by Ricarda his wife, daughter and
heiress of John Ingepenne of Diddesham in the county of Devon,^
he left a son, Thomas, then nine years of age,^ who died un-
married, and one daughter, Isabel, the wife of Robert Hill, Esq.
She made proof of her age in the 20th Ric. II. Her grandson
John Cheyney left issue four daughters, Mabel the wife of
Edward Waldegrave of Suffolk, Esq., Helen the wife of George
Babington, Esq., Elizabeth the wife of William Clopton, Esq.,
and Anne the wife of Robert Hussey, Esq., who eventually be-
came the representatives of the elder line of the Fychet family.'^
Fychet stated in his deposition that he was related to Thomas
Carminow of Cornwall, but the pedigrees* of that ancient family
do not notice any alliance which explains the connection.
He deposed to having seen Sir Richard Scrope, his body
armed in the said arms, as well as others of his family with differ-
ences; and that he had heard say from old persons, that Thomas
Carminow of Cornwall, who is his relation, had a controversy with
the said Sir Richard and his lineage, on account of the said arms,
in France, before the Earl of Northampton, the which Thomas
Carminow proved these arms from the time of King Arthur, and
the said Sir Richard from the time of King William the Con-
queror ; whereupon it was agreed, that as the said Thomas Car-
minow had proved usage before the Conquest, he ought of right
to bear them ; and that the said Sir Richard might also bear
them, he having proved his right from the time of King William
the Conqueror. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of his ancestry, he
knew nothing until the late expedition in Scotland with the King.
Sir Thomas Fychet's arms were. Gules, a lion rampant Or ; a
bend Argent.®
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 135.
* Fcedera, iii. p' iii. p. 194. A William Fychet, chaplain, probably a near
relation of Sir Thomas, was also in the expedition. Ibid.
» FoBdera, ui. p* iii. p. 196. * Esch. 15 Ric. II. no 21.
* Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p. 291. • Esch. 15 Ric. II. n© 21.
^ CoUinson's History of Somersetshire, vol. i. p. 244.
" Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p. 482.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 207
SIR GEOFFREY SAINT QUINTYN. Excepting a few s.„g.o
genealogical particulars, little is known of this knight. It is pre- tin.
sunied that he wan the eldest son of Sir Geoffrey Saint Quintjn,
the descendant of a very ancient family which was seated at Harp-
ham in Yorkshire from an early period, by Alice daughter of
Sir William Roos, of Ingmanthorp in that county.' In April,
3 Ric. II. 1380, he received letters of protection, being then about
to go beyond the aea." As there are not any Incjuisitiones post
mortem in the Tower for this branch of the Saint Quintyn family,
the time of his death has not been ascertained. By a daughter, it
is said, of Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough' he had a son, Sir
William Saint Quintyn, the ancestor of the baronets of that name.*
Sir Geoffrey Saint Quintyn deposed to having seen Sir Richard
Scrape and his family bear the arms Azure, a bend Or ; and add-
ed, that he had often heard before he was armed that they had
frequently acquired much honour in the said arms, in great expe-
ditions, battles, and journeys ; that he hatl also heard from good
lords and old knights and esquires, that Sir Richard is the righ*
heir to the said arms ; and never heard to the contrary. Of Gros-
venor he never heard, or of his ancestry, until the late expedition
in Scotland.
His arms were, Or, a chevron Gules, a chief Vaire,*
ROBERT DE PILKYNGTON, Esqciee, was doubtless a R-bebt
younger brotiier of Sir Roger Pilkyngton of Pilkyngton in Lanca- esu.
shire, who with his son. Sir John Pilkyngton, were also deponents in
the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy,'' in the notices of whom some
particulars of the family will be found. As Sir Roger Pilkyngton,
the elder brother of Robert, was nearly sixty when he was exa-
' ir, however, die dates in WottAn'a Buonetage, ed- 1741, be correct, the Depo-
nent could not have been the son of Sir Geoffre; Saint Quiolyn and Alice Roo9 ;
for it is said that their son Sir Geoffrey was living in 1326. There is not atiy
notice of another Geoffrey in the Saint Quintyn pedigree,
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, vol. ii. p. 131.
■ It is to be observed, that no notice of this alliance occurs in the Will of Sir
Itoben Constable, or in the Will of his son.
' Wottoo's Baronetage, ed. 1741, ii. 281.
' [loll of Arms before cited, and Heralds* VisiUtions of Yorkshire.
• Depositioiu taken at Chester, pages 289, 300.
208
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Robert de
PiLKYNGTON,
Esq.
mined, this witness may have been about fifty-five in 1386 ; and it
is evident from his deposition that he was an old soldier, and had
served in the greater part of the battles and expeditions of the
reign of Edward the Third. On the 4th May 1378 he obtained
letters of protection, being in the retinue of John of Gant " upon
the sea,'' wherein he is thus described : " Robertus de Pilkyngton,
Armiger, Senescallus Dominii de Halton in Comitatu CestriaB.''^ In
January 1386, similar letters were issued to him in consequence of
his being about to accompany the King of Castile to Spain, on
which occasion he is described as " Robertus de Pilkyngton de
Pilkyngton, Senescallus de Halton.''^ Seven years afterwards,
letters of protection, dated 16th January 1393, were given to a
Robert de Pilkyngton, probably the deponent, who was in the
retinue of John Holand Earl of Huntingdon, Captain of Brest.^
Robert de Pilkyngton deposed that he had seen Sir Richard
Scrope and many others of his family armed in the disputed arms,
in France, Gascony, Spain, and Scotland, in numerous expeditions,
journeys, and battles, and had heard before that time that Scrope's
ancestors had borne the said arms, which, according to public
report, belonged to him of right. Of Grosvenor he knew nothing
until the late expedition in Scotland.
Sir John de
Brewes.
SIR JOHN DE BREWKS. The remark made by this
knight in his deposition, that he was the nephew of Robert Earl
of Suffolk, identifies him as the son of Sir John de Brewes of
Stinton in Norfolk, a descendant of the Lords Braose of Bramber,
by Agnes daughter of Robert Lord Ufford, and sister of Robert
first Earl of Suffolk, K. G.* He was born in 1332, and in 1368
the Earl bequeathed him a legacy in his Will by the description of
" Sir John Brewes my nephew.'*'^ Although he served on various
occasions in the army, the public records present few notices of
him. He stated that he was at the siege of Calais in 1347, at
which time he could not have been more than fifteen years of age.
* Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 74. * Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 190.
^ Foedera, iii. p* iv. p. 83.
* Blomefield's History of Norfolk, folio, vol. iv. p. 419.
^ Testamenta Vetusta, i. 74. The Earl also mentioned his sister the Depo-
nent's mother.
SIR RICHARD SCnoPF.. 209
when probably be commenced hia military career; and that he Si«Jou(in
was at the battle of Mavron in Brittany, which was fought in
August 1352.' In 1359 Brewes was a Commissioner of Array
for Suffolk,'^ and was Sheriff of that county in 1371-' He was
one of the gentlemen who were seized by the Norfolk insurgents
as a hostage in the 4th Ric. 11. and by them sent, together with
Sir William Morley, and some of their own party, to the King,
to obtain a charier of manumission and pardon. They were how-
ever met by Spenser the " warlike" Bishop of Norwich, who
routed them, and released Brewes and Morley from their disa-
greeable situation.*
In May 1383 Sir John Brewes obtained letters of general
attorney, being then in the King's service abroad;" and it appears,
from his being examined at Plymouth in June 1386, that he ac-
companied John of Gant to Spain in that year. He married Joan
daughter of Sir John Shardelow, and had issue Sir Robert Brewes,
who left descendants; and two of his present representatives are
the Marquess Townshend, and John Gould Floyer of Ketsby near
Louth, Esq.
Sir John Brewse's arms were, Argent, semee of cross crosslets,
a lion rampant Gules, crowned Or."
He deposed that he was fifty-four years of age; that he had
seen and known Sir Hichard Scrope armed on his body with
Azure, a bend Or; that he had seen another of his lineage and
name who was at the battle of Mavron in Brittany armed in the
same arms, but that he no longer knew his proper name ; that
at the siege of Calais many of his name and lineage were armed
in the same arms with differences ; that at the said siege the
crest of the said Sir Richard was challenged, when his uncle
Robert Earl of Suffolk said that he marvelled at such challenge
of his crest, for that the said Sir Richard was come and descended
from ancient gentlemen bearing those arms. As to Sir Robert
Grosvenor, in all the places vhere he the said Sir John had been
' Robert of Avesbury, p. 190. • Rol. PaL 33 Edw, IU.iq. Td.
» Fuller's Worthies. * Blomefield's Norfolk, folio, vol. iv. p. 419.
> Carte's Gascon RolU, ii. 14S.
' Vincent'» Suffolk, f, 138 b. In the Roll of Aims lemp. Edw.ll. a Sir Giles
Breouse, whose nanic occurs among tlie Barons, is said lo liave borne these anns,
but the tail of the lion " forchee e reoouwe." p. 13.
you II. 2 E
\
210 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
armed, be never saw him armed, nor any of his name, until the
last expedition in Scotland with the King.
John Bolton, JOHN BOLTON, EsQuiRE. Notwithstanding that this per-
Esq»
son states the name of his grandfather in his deposition, and that
in one of the few records in which he is mentioned he is described
of " Hoby" in Yorkshire, he cannot with certainty be affiliated.
These facts admit, however, of the inference that he was a younger
son of Thomas Bolton, who died in vita patris, son and heir of
Sir Thomas Bolton of Hoton Colswaine in the county of York, on
whose death in 1351, Thomas Bolton his grandson was found to
be his heir, and eighteen years of age.^ If this conjecture be cor-
rect, John Bolton was probably bom about 1335; but the first
notice which has been found of him is, that he was retained for
life by John of Gant between the 3rd and 7th Ric. 11.^ In Ja-
nuary 1385 he received letters of protection, being then in Por-
tugal, in the army of Ferdinand, Master of the Order of Knights
of St. James ;^ and similar letters were issued to him on the 6th
March 1386, in consequence of his serving in the expedition to
Spain, in which he is styled " John Bolton of Hoby, Esquire."*
Bolton deposed to having seen Sir Richard Scrope, and others
of his lineage, armed in the disputed arms; that he had heard
from his father that he and Sir Henry Scrope had been in cam-
paign with the late Sir Ralph Neville ; and that Sir Henry Scrope
was then armed in the said arms with difference. The Depo-
nent added that his grandfather, Sir Thomas de Bolton, and Sir
Henry Scrope, were companions in Scotland with King Edward
of Carnarvon ; that the said Sir Henry was there armed in the said
arms, and that his ancestors had borne them beyond memory.
1 £sch. 25 £dw. III. n^ 50. The said Thomas Bolton, the grandson, died in
1375, leaving Mary, his daughter and heiress, aged two years. £sch. 49£dw. III.
n^ 14. Sir Thomas Bolton, the grandfather, had a younger son, John Bolton, whose
widow, Katherine, died in 1365, when Thomas Bolton, her husband's nephew, was
found to be heir to the lands of which she died seised. Esch. 39 Edw. III. n® 8.
* Registrum Johannis Ducis Lancastris.
^ Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 148.
♦ FoBdera, iii. p* iii. p. 194. Seth Holme, the grandson of Thomas Holme, and
Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Bolton of Holye, co. York, was
living in 1584.
1
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 211
But Sir Roberl Grosvenor he had never seen, nor heard speak of
him, until the last expeditiuD in Scotland with the King.
The amiB of BoltoD appear to have bet-ii, Argent, on a chevron
Gules, three lions Or.'
SIR THOMAS ROUTH was probably a member of the s.r Tho,
ancient family of that name of Holderness in Yorkshire, but the
pedigrees are extremely imperfect;- and no evidence has been
discovered to lead to his identity. By the description of " Sir
Thomas Routh of the county of York, Knight," he obtained kt-
ters of protection on the 6tli March 1386, and of general attorney
on the I2th April following for one year, he being then about to
serve in the army of John of Gant in Spain.'
Sir Thomas Routh stated in his deposition, that he had seen
and known Sir Richard Scrope armed on his body with a blue
field and a bend Or, and with those arms on his banner, as well as
others of his name and lineage in the tike arms with diiFerences, in
expeditions, journeys, and in battles ; that he had heard noble and
valiant knights and esquires speak to the same effect ; and that the
said arms had descended to him from his ancestors, never having
in all his life heard to the contrary. But of Sir Robert Grosvenor
he had heard nothing, nor had he known him before the last expe-
dition in Scotland.
The armsofRouthe of Yorkshire were. Argent, a chevron Sable
between three lions' heads erased Gules.*
SIR THOMAS MARSHALL was the second son of Sir s.bTho.
Ralph Marshal] nf West.Chinnock in the county of Sonjerset, by '"""'
Joan daughter and heiress of John Barry by Isabel daughter of
PhUip de la Mare.* His father died in 1346, leaving Herliert
' These arras are atlribuled, ina Boll of Anns of the reign of Edward III. 8to.
1629, to a " Monsire de Bolton."
'An eirly pedigree, wilhoul dates, ij in the Lansdown MS. 207. C. f. 2Q3,
in a history of the Abbey of Melsa in fJoldemesse. It commeDces with a Simon
de Ruda, and is brought down to Sir John Routh, son of Amand Routh, who
occura in the Nomina Villarum 9 Edw. II. but uo Thomas is mentioned.
' Fffidera, iii. p' iii. p^es 195. 198. ' Vincent's Yorkshire, n' 110. 229 b.
' Bundle of petitions in Chmeery, 4 Hen. VI., abstracted in Vincent's MS.
a' 312, f. 305. Lucas Barry, Ifae father of the said John Barry, graoted to him
and Isabel his wife the manor of West Barry in ftank maniage.
2 E 2
♦ 212 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
I
Sib Thomas Marshall his son and heir, twelve years of age,^ who died without
I issue, and was succeeded in his lands by the Deponent. Sir Thomas
t Marshall was probably bom about 1340; and by the descrip-
[ tionof " Sir Thomas Marshall of the county of Somerset, Knight,''
I he received letters of protection on the 12th January 1386,
I being then about to serve under the Duke of Lancaster in Spain.^
He died in 1387 or 1388, and Joan the daughter of Nicholas
Reade was found to be his heir.' She was four years old in 1388,
and afterwards married Sir Stephen Fopham, by whom she left
issue four daughters and coheirs: 1. Alice the wife of Humphrey
Foster; 2. Elizabeth, who married, first, John Barentine, and se-
condly, John Butler ;. 3. Elizabeth, who became the wife of Sir
John Wadham of Merifield in Somersetshire, ancestor of Nicholas
Wadham, the founder of Wadham College; and 4. Margaret, who
married, first, Thomas Hampden, and secondly, Richard Godfrey.*
It is, however, very doubtful if Joan Reade was the Deponent's
heir in blood. She was probably heir only to certain lands, as no
notice is taken of her or her children in the proceedings in the 4th
Hen. VI. before cited, from which it is to be inferred that Sir
Thomas Marshall had had three children, Thomas, Alice, and
Joan, who were then dead without issue, and his niece Joan the
wife of Robert Trenchman was at that time his nearest relation.
He deposed to having seen Sir Richard Scrope armed in the
arms in dispute, and Sir Henry Scrope armed on his body, and with
his banner, the field Azure, with a bend Or, and a label Argent ;
but he knew nothing more. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor he had often
heard it said that he was a gentleman and of a good family, bear-
ing arms ; but what they were he knew not, for he had never seen
the said Sir Robert armed in any expedition in which he had been.
Sir Thomas MarshalFs arms were. Or, a mill rind Gules.*
' Esch. 20 £dw. III. n® 36. Sir Ralph Marshall and Joan his wife had also
two daughters : Isabel, who died unmarried ; and Florence, who married John
Gerym, and had issue Joan the wife of Robert Trenchman, who was living
4th Hen. VI. Vincent's MS. n© 212, f. 305. ' Foedera, iii. p* iji. p. 190.
a Esch. 11 Ric. II. n» 36.
* MS. in the College of Arms, marked C 22. f. 343 b. where however she is
called, by mistake, Margaret.
^ These arms are attributed to '' Sir Ralph Marshall of Hampshire," in the
Roll of Arms temp. Edw. II. 8vo. 1828.
SIR RICILARD SCROPE. 213
SIR MILES DE WINDSOR. The family from which this ^
Knight was descended is one of the most ancient in England, and
is now represented by the Earl of Plytnouth, the 13th Baron
Windsor.
Sir Miles was the eldest son of Sir James Windsor of Stan-
well in the county of Middlesex, by Elizabeth daughter and
heiress of Sir John Streechie of Wombro in Wiltshire,' and suc-
ceeded his father about 1360, at which time he could not have
been more tlian six years of age, as he was found to be sixteen
in 1370." Though it appears from his deposition, that he had
fretjuenlly served in the field, the only notice of liim in records is,
that on the 6th of March 1386 he obtained letters of protection
for one year, being then about to go to Spain in the army under
John of Gant.' Having accompanied the Prince to that country,
he died there on the 31st of March in the following year, aged
about thirty-three years.* By Alice daughter of Adam Wymond-
ham, or Wyndham, of Wymondham in Norfolk, who died in
1394,^ Sir Miles Windsor had a son Bryan Windsor, who was
fifteen years old at his father's decease,^ and was the ancestor of
the Barons Windsor. Sir Miles Wyndsor deposed, that he had
seen and known the said Sir Richard Scrope, and others of his
lineage, namely his cousins, bearing the disputed arms with dif-
ferences, on banners and pennons, in expeditions and journeys,
and never saw nor heard that any other person was armed in
those arms; but he had heard from old knights and esquires,
that the said arms belonged of right to the said Sir Hichard, and
had descended to him in a direct line. As for Sir Robert Gros-
venor, he never saw him armed, nor had any knowledge of him,
or of his arms, or of his ancestors, until the last expedition in
Scotland.
The arms of Sir Miles Windsore were, Gules crusilly Or, a
saltire Argent.'
' Coltins'g Peerage, iv. 63. She died in 1 372, Esch, 46 Edw. III. n» n.
• E»ch, 44 Edw. III. n" 67. " Ftedera, iii. p' iii. p. 194.
■ Each. 10 Ric. II. n" 46. ' Esch. 18 Ric. II, n" 51.
' Esch. 10 Ric. II. n" 46.
' Roll of Arms temp. l^w. II, Kro. inSQ, wheie these arms are attributed to
his grandrailier Sir Richard Windsore of Berkshire.
1
214
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas
Clinton.
SIR THOMAS CLINTON was a younger son of John Lord
Clinton, by Idonea daughter of William Lord Say, and is pre-
sumed to have been born about 1360.^ It is said,^ that he pos-
sessed the manor of Amington in Warwickshire ; but as great
errors have prevailed with respect to him,^ it is not impossible
that this may also be a misstatement. He obtained letters of pro-
tection on the 7th January 1386, being then about to serve in the
army destined for Spain,^ and is supposed^ to have died in that
expedition, probably unmarried and issueless.
Sir Thomas Clinton deposed that he had seen and known Sir
Richard Scrope bearing his banner in the lists in two expeditions
in Scotland with the arms Azure a bend Or thereon, and others
of his family using the same arms with differences. But of Sir Ro-
bert Grosvenor he had never heard, nor of his arms, until the last
expedition in Scotland. Clinton'*s arms were. Argent, on a chief
Azure, two mullets of six points Or, pierced Gules ; a label Ermine.^
Sir John
scabgyll.
SIR JOHN SCARGYLL. The family of Scargyll was of
considerable antiquity in the county of York, and had held the
manor of Thorp Stapleton near Leeds from the time of Edward
the First. Sir William Scargyll was living in 1376, and by Mar-
garet daughter of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorp left John
Scargyll his son and heir,^ who may have been the Deponent.
' His elder brother Sir William died in 1384, leaving a son about ten
years old. * CoUins's Peerage, ii. p. 249.
' Collins and many pedigrees assert, that this Sir Thomas Clinton married
Joan daughter and coheiress of Sir Ralph Meignill ; that he had by her a daughter
and heiress Anne, who married Robert Fraunces of Foremark in Derbyshire ; and
that his widow married secondly John Staunton. That the Deponent did not
marry or have issue by Joan Meignill is unquestionable, for she was not born
until the year 1380. She was the wife of John Staunton in the 21st Ric. II., and
his widow in the 7th Hen. IV., so that Staunton must have been her first, and a Sir
Thomas Clinton her second husband. Escheats, 12 Ric. II. 21 Ric. II. and
7 Hen. IV. Her Will, which is printed in Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iii. p* ii.
p. 709, and in the Testamenta Vetusta, was dated in 1452, whence it appears that
she was then the widow of a Sir Thomas Clinton.
* Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 190. * Collins's Peerage, ii. p. 295.
• Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling.
' Brooke's MSS.in the College of Arms, n® l,f. 337 b. and Thoresby's History
of Leeds, by Whitaker, vol. ii. p. 225.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 215
On the 6th March 1386, he obtained letters of protection, being Sm John
then about to serve under John of Gant in Spain,' By a daughter
of Uslaine he had issue: 1, William Scargyll, who was
living in 1451, and left descendants ; and 2. Agnes, who married
Thomas Calveley.-
Sir John Scargyll's arms were, Ermine, a saltire Gules," He
deposed to nearly the same purport as the previous witness, that
he had seen Sir Bichard Scrope and his family bearing the arms
Azure, a bend Or; and had heard from his father that the
Scropes had used these arms on banners in divers expeditions,
journeys, and great battles, and that they had descended to
Sir Richard from his ancestors from beyond the time of memory.
Of Sir Robert Grosvenor he had no knowledge, nor of his family,
noF ever heard of him until the last expedition in Scotland,
SIR DAVID ROUCLYF. This person was the son of s.rD*t,d
Sir Richard Rouclyf of Rouclyf in Yorkshire, (who was also ^ovclip.
examined on the part of Sir Richard Scrope,) by Elizabeth daugh-
ter of Sir Adam Everingham of Laxton in the county of Notts.*
With the exception of a few genealogical particulars, and what he
states in his deposition, scarcely a single fact is known about him.
Sir David Rouclyf died without issue in 1406 or 1407, seised of
lands in Thornthorpe, Pikeryng, Levesham, and Wrelton in York-
shire ; and according to the inquisition held on his decease, Maud
his sister, the wife of WiUiam Lascelles, was his heir, and then
thirty years of age and upwards,* but the pedigree above cited
states that he had another sister, Cecily, who married Bigot,
and a brother. Sir Richard Rouclyf, who died without issue.*
He deposed to precisely the same effect as the last witness with
respect both to Scrope and Grosvenor; and the only variation is,
I Fivdera, iii. p* iii. p. 194.
' Brooke's MSS. in the College of Arms, a" 1, f. 337 b, and ThoTesby's History
of Leeds, by Whiiaker, vol.ii. p. 225.
' Brooke's MSS. d" 1, f.337. In a Roll of Arms temp. Ed». Ill, 8vo. 1829,
" Monsire William de Scargili" a said lo have Iwrne these arms.
' Brooke's MSS. d° 1, f. 309, and Vinceot's MS. n" 110, {. 199 b. in the
College of Arms. ' Esch. 8 Hen. IV. n" 3.
= The Rouclyf pedigree will be again noticed in the account of Sir Ricliard
Rouclyf.
216
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
that he said his father had informed him that the arms Azure,
a bend Or, belonged to Scrope from beyond the time of memory.
Sir David Rouclyrs arms were, Argent, a chevron between
three lions'* heads erased Gules.
Sir Ralph
BULMER.
Waryn Eyr-
DALE, Esq.
SIR RALPH BULMER was the eldest son of Ralph Bui-
mer of Bulmer in the county of York, the representative of an
ancient family whom Dugdale includes among the Barons by tenure,^
and was bom in 1365, being one year old at the death of his father
on the 22nd December 1366.- He was therefore not more than
twenty-one when examined in the Scrope and Grosvenor contro-
versy, which explains the allusion in his deposition to his youth,
notwithstanding which, he says, he had served in two expeditions
in Scotland, meaning probably those in 1383 and 1385. Sir Ralph
Bulmer died in 1405 or 1406, and left issue by Agnes his wife,
whom he must have married before he was eighteen, two sons,
Ralph his son and heir, twenty-three years of age, and George his
second son. From Ralph Bulmer, the eldest son, the Bulmers of
Yorkshire descended.
Sir Ralph Bulmer deposed, that although he was young he had
twice seen the banner of Sir Richard Scrope, Azure, a bend Or,
publicly borne in Scotland, and others of his lineage bearing the
like arms with differences ; that he had heard from old knights
and esquires that they had borne these arms on their bodies in
battles and great journeys; and that the said arms belonged to
Sir Richard by right of inheritance, as public report testified.
Of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of his lineage, he knew nothing until
the last expedition in Scotland with the King.
Bulmer's arms were. Gules billetee, a lion rampant Or.'
WARYN EYRDALE, Esquire. The name of this person
has been found in only one place besides the Scrope Roll. He
obtained letters of protection on the 6th March 1386, in conse-
quence of his being in John of Gant's army going to Spain;*
' Baronage, i. 592.
• £sch. 41 Edw. III. n® 11. Margaret, the Deponent's mother, married se-
condly Edward Frithby, and died in 3 Ric. II. Esch. 3 Ric. II. n^*- 7 and 11.
3 HeraldsWisitations of Yorkshire, and Roll of Arms temp. Edw. II. 8?o. 1828.
* Foedera, iii. pt iii. p. 194.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 217
and it is manifeat from his deposition that he was then advanced in w
life, and had seen much military service.
Eyrdale deposed that he had seen and known Sir Richard
Scrope armed on his body, the field Ai;ure, a bend Or, and others
of his name and lineage in the same arms with differences, in
great exiwditions and journeys in France, Gascony, Spain, and in
Scotland ; and during all the time he had been armed throughout
the world, he had never seen any other man bear these arms ex-
cepting those of the name of Scrope, nor ever heard that any one
had a right to use t)iem ; and that he hod always heard that the
said arms had descended by right to the said Sir Ricliard from
beyond the time of memory, as the public voice and common fame
testified. As to Sir Robert Grosvenor, he never saw him use arms
until the last expedition in Scotland with the King.
SIR WILLIAM LUCY, the younger, was ofChariecote in Si.
Warwickshire ; and the addition of " the younger" seems to have
been used to distinguish bim from the Sir William Lucy who was
examined at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire on the ICth July 1386.
He was Ihc son of Thomas Lucy of Charlecole, who was living in
the 28lh Edw. III., by Philippa his wife;' but so imperfect are
all the pedigrees of this ancient family, that the names of the
mother and wife of the Deponent have not been discovered ; nor
has the time of his birth or death Ijeen ascertained. He was
retained by indenture to serve the Duke of Lancaster in war or in
peace, with a fee of 20/. per annum, and bouche of court ; ' and
in January 1386 received letters of protection, being then about to
serve in the Duke's array in Spain.'^ Lucy was Knight of the
Shire for the county of Warwick in the 1st Hen. IV.,' and on the
16th November 1399, was Steward of the King's lordship of Mon-
mouth.' He left issue two sons, Sir Thomas, and William Lucy,
Esquire, who held the manor of Bissehampton in Worcestershire,
and died without issue on the vigil of Palm Sunday, 1419. From
Sir Thomas Lucy, the eldest son, the present possessor of Charle-
cote is descended.
' Dugdale's Hislgi^ of Warwickshire, p.39r.
■ f ccdera, iii. p" iii. p. 190. A Sir William Lucy was in ilie King's service
b«yon(l the sea in the Isl Ric. II., but it is doubtful whetliRr it was lljis Deponent.
• Fffidera, lii.p'iv.p. 169.
VOL. 11. '2 V
218 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir William Lucy deposed to precisely the same purport as the
two preceding witnesses; and all which appears from his testi-
mony, in relation to himself, is that he was in the expedition in
Scotland in 1385. His arms were, Gules, semee of cross crosslets,
and three luces hauriant, Or.
William WILLIAM SUDBURY, EsQuiRE. Of any individual of
Sudbury, hsQ. ^ ^ ^ •'
this name little is known, and with that little he cannot with cer-
tainty be identified. There is however reason to believe • that • he
was the William Sudbury who in 1348 was found to be son and
heir of Sir William Sudbury, Knight, who died in that year seised
of Sudbury in Bedfordshire, at which time his son William was
thirteen years of age.^ The Deponent stated in 1386 that he was
then fifty-five and upwards, which agrees within four years of the
date of his birth as fixed by the Inquisition on the death of his
father. Between the 3rd and 7th Ric. II. he was retained to serve
John of Gant for life;^ and he may have been the William Sudbury,
King'^s Serjeant, to whom Henry the Fourth granted a messuage
in Worcester in 1406.^
Sudbury* deposed that he was of the age of fifty-five years
and upwards, and had been armed above forty years; that he
had seen Sir Richard and Sir Henry Scrope with banners of the
disputed arms in Scotland, France, Gascony, and Spain, who in
their arms acquired great honour in their time ; that he had heard
from noble and valiant knights and esquires, that the arms be^
longed of right to Sir Richard Scrope from time beyond the me-
mory of man according to public fame; and that he had never
heard aught to the contrary until the last expedition in Scotland
with the King, in which expedition the said Sir Richard chal-
lenged one Sir Robert Grosvenor, the which Sir Robert he never
saw, nor had knowledge of him or of his arms.
* £sch. 22 Edw. III. n" 9. Joan widow of John Sudbury of Sudbury in
Bedfordshire died 8 Edw. III. leaving William, her son, of full age. £sch.
8 Edw. III. n» 30.
* Registnim Johannis Ducis Lancastrive. » Rot. Pat. 7 Hen. IV. p< 1. m. 35.
* Simon Sudbury, alias Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was be-
headed by the rebels in June 1381, had a brother John Sudbury who was living in
April 1 374. Morant's History of Essex, vol. ii. p. 271 ; but nothing more is
recorded of the Archbishop's family.
SIR rdciiAiU) scROPE. 319
LORD SCALES. Roger fourth Lord Scales was the son of i*"
Robert third Lord Scales by Katherine daughter and eventually
coheiress of Robert Uiford, first Earl of Suffolk, K. G. and was
bom about 1347, being twenty-two when he succeeded his father
in the barony in 1369.'
Lord Scales was in the expedition into France in 1370, and in
the 4th Ric. IL during the insurrection of Jack Straw, some of
the rebels in Norfolk seized him, and obliged him to accompany
them.- When Richard the Second invaded Scotland in 1385,
Scales served in the expedition; and it would appear from his
being examined in the Sero])e and Grosvenor controversy at Ply-
mouth in June 1386, that he was in the army with which John of
Gant went to Spain in that year, though he is not mentioned in
FroisBart^s list of eminent persons who were present on that
occasion.
Lord Scales was summoned to parliament from 28th December
1375 to the 3rd September 1385,= and was a trier of petitions for
Gascony and other parts beyond the sea, in the parliament which
met at Northampton in November 1380." He died on Christ-
mas day 1386,'' most probably in Spain, aged about thirty-nine.
His Will is dated at Hickling on the Gth March 1385^, wherein
he ordered his body to be buried in the quire of the monastery of
Blackberg. By Joan, daughter of Sir John Northwood, of North-
wood in Kent, Knight, who married secondly Sir Edmund
Thorp,^ and died on the 4th January 1415,' Lord Scales had
issue Robert fifth Lord Scales, whose descendants failed on the
death of Elizabeth Lady Scales, wife of Anthony Wydville Lord
Scales, in the 13th Edw. IV. ; and the representation of the house
of Scales then vested in the issue of the Deponent's two sisters,
Margaret the wife of Sir Robert Howard, and Elizabeth the wife
of Sir Roger Felbrigge of Norfolk.
Lord Scales dejiosed to having xeen Sir Richard Scrope and
others of his family armed Azure, a bend Or, in divers expe-
ditions and journeys; that he had often heard from old knights
' Etchtal 43 Edw. III. n" 22. ' Dugdale's Barooage, i. 617.
' Appendix CD Uie First Peerage Report. ' Rot. Pari. iii. p. 89.
> Esch. 10 Ric. IJ. 11" 50.
' Her Will was dated a9tb September 1414, and proved 21bI April following,
TesUmenta Velusta, i. 184—186. ' Each. 2 Hen. V. n" H.
2p 2
220 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
and esquires, that the said arms had descended to them from be-
yond the time of human memory ; and that he never saw any man
use those arms, entire, excepting Sir Richard Scrope. Of Sir
Robert Grosvenor he never heard, nor ever saw him, or his ances-
tors, until the last expedition in Scotland with the King.
The arms of Lord Scales were. Gules, six escallops Argent.
Sir Thomas SIR THOMAS JENEE. The only family of any considera-
JeNE£.
tion of the name of Jenny in the fourteenth century was seated at
Knottishall in Suffolk ; a younger branch of which lived at He-
ringflete in that county, and subsequently at Cressingham Magna
in Norfolk. The Deponent has not however been identified as a
member of either of those branches, though the probability is
that he descended from one of them. The usual sources of infor-
mation are entirely silent respecting him.
Jenny deposed that he had seen and known Sir, Richard Scrope
armed. Azure, a bend Or, as well as many of his cousins bearing
his name, and of his lineage, with differences ; that he had never
• seen or heard of any other man being armed in the said arms
until the last expedition in Scotland with the King ; that he did
not then see Sir Robert Grosvenor, but he heard the challenge
which the said Sir Richard gave to the said Sir Robert Grosvenor
spoken of ; and that he had often heard from his progenitors that
the said arms belonged to Sir Richard by right, and ought to
belong to him, as fame and the common and public voice testified
in that matter.
The arms of Jenny of Norfolk and Suffolk were. Ermine, a
bend Gules.
Sir Miles DE giR MILES DE BOYS was the third son of John de Boys
of Coningesby in the county of York,^ and of Rollesby in Nor-
folk, by Katherine Stapleton his wife.^ John de Boys of Co-
ningsby and Rollesby, the eldest son, died in 1421, and was
buried at Ingham.' Sir Roger de Boys, the second son, was lord
* Norris*s MSS. in the possession of the Right Hon. John Hookham Frere.
« The Lady Catharine Boys is named in the foundation deed of Ingham Priory,
1360, amongst the deceased relatives of Sir Miles Stapleton, K.G. the founder,
whose souls were to be prayed for; and the arms of Stapleton impaled with Boys
occur on the tower of Ingham Church.
' His will was proved 10th July, 1421 . Register Hyrning, fol. 82 a.
1
SIR RICHARD SCRUPE. 221
of the manor of Honing in Norfolk, married Margaret daughter S.n Mn,
and heiress of John de Gimmingham of Honing in Norfolk, and,
as well as his wife, was huried at Ingham.' Of Sir Miles Bo^a,
the Deponent, two facts only are known, hesides what may be
gleaned from his deposition, and these are of slight importance.
In 1375, Bryan de Helmesley appointed Sir Roger de Boys hia
executor, and bequeathed a legacy to " Miles de Boys, brother
of Roger ;"= and in ISB* he and Sir Roger were executors of
John de Sax ham.'
He deposed, that in the last expedition in Scotland he saw Sir
Richard Scrope with a banner, and his body armed like his ban-
ner, that is to say, the field Azure, with a bend Or; that he had
seen and known others of his lineage and name armed in the same
arms with differences, in expeditions and journeys, and that he
had often heard from nobles and valiant knights and esijuires, that
the said arms were descended by right line to the said Sir Richard .
from beyond the time of niemory, as public voice and fame tes-
tified. Ah to Sir Robert Grosvenor, he never heard of him nor
of his ancestry until the dispute began between him and the said
Sir Richard in Scotland.
The arms of Boys were, Barry of six Argent and Gules, a
canton of the second ; over all a bend Sable ; '* but the arms of
Sir Miles were probably differenced.
THOMAS BRADELEY, Esqlire. A solitary fact is the T,.o««a
only result of the research bestowed on this individual. Two fami- ^J'^*
lies of the name of Bradcley existed in the reign of Richard the
Second, one of Louth in Lincolnshire, and the otiicr of Bradeley
in the county of Lancaster ; but there is nothing to show to which
the Deponent belonged.
Between the 3rd and 7th Ric. II., Thomas Bradeley was re-
tained to serve John of Gant for life, as well in peace as in war;*
and his deposition proves that when examined in the Scrope and
• Bloraelield's Ilislory of Norfolk. ' Register Hey don, f. 112 a.
' Register Harsy, f. 29 b.
■ Escocheona on Sir Roger Boys' tomb, aod on the tower of logham. Id
tlie Roll of Arms temp. Edw. It. Bvo. 182B, very similar arnii, xiamely, " de
Argenl i ij batre» e un quarter de Goules, e une bend de Sable," are altribuujd to
a " Sir Johan ilu Boy» " of Lincolnshire.
* Registruiu Joliooiiis Ducii Laacasirix.
222
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
T0011A8
Bradblbt,
Esq.
Grosvenor controversy, he was an old soldier, and had served in
numerous campaigns.
He deposed that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope bear the arms
Azure, a bend Or, on his body and banner, and many others of his
lineage and name with diflFerences, in France, Gascony, Spain,
and Scotland, and that they there in their time acquired great
honour in their arms in great battles, journeys, and expeditions,
during the reign of the noble King Edward ; that he had heard in
times past, from noble lords, valiant knights, and good esquires
now deceased, that the said arms appertained of right to the
said Sir Richard, and ought to belong to him, they having de-
scended to him in a right line, as the public voice and fame testi-
fied. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor he had heard nothing, nor did he
know any thing of him until the last expedition in Scotland with
the King.
Adam
Nbusoit.
ADAM NEUSOM. A family of the name of Newsom, New-
sam, or Newsham, was seated at Itchington in Warwickshire, the
representative of which, Thomas Newsam, was living in the 15th
Ric. II. and 1st Hen. V.; but from the acquaintance which Adam
Neusom evinced in his deposition with the county of Chester, it
would rather seem that he was descended from a family of the North
of England. He was born in 1332, and first served in the field
in the expedition in Spain, and was at the battle of Najara in April
1367. Between the 3rd and 7th Ric. II. he was retained to serve
John of Gant for life;^ and in February 1380 was pardoned a
trespass in Mierscogh Park by the description of " Adam Newsom,
Esquire."^
He deposed that he was of the age of fifty-four, and had been
armed since the battle of Spain ; that he had seen and known Sir
Richard Scrope armed on his body Azure, a bend Or, and many
others of his lineage armed in the same arms with differences, in
Scotland and Spain ; and that he had often heard before that time
that the ancestors of the said Sir Richard had been armed in the
said arms beyond the time of memory. But touching Sir Robert
Grosvenor, he said that he is come from the Grosvenors of the
county of Chester, and that his ancestors lie interred in the Abbey
of Chester; but the arms are not depicted in colours on their
* Registrum Johannis Ducis Lancastrise.
SIR RICtlAUD SCROPE. 223
bodies, but are depicted in glass of the windows in the said Abbey
in colours, as would be found throughout the country;' but he
never saw Sir Robert Grosvenor armed until the last expedition
in Scotland with the King.
SIR JOHN TRAILLY. It would be an irksome task to Sir. Joi.n
collect notices of the Deponents in the Scrope and Gi-osvenor
controversy, if the facts were not sometimes more interesting
and satisfactory than those resjiecting the last two or three
witnesses. Trailly was an eminent soldier, and abundant testi-
mony exists of bis merits and services. He was the eldest son of
John Trailly, Esquire, who died seised of lands in the counties of
Kent, Cambridge, Bedford, and Northampton in 1360, and was
born about 13-1-t, being sixteen at his father's decease. ■■■ In Fe-
bruary 1.36a, at which time he was a knight, he received letters
of general attorney, being then about to acctimpany Lionel Duke
of Clarence to Milan,' whence it seems that he formed part of that
prince's retinue when he celebrated his nuptials with Yiolanta
daughter of Galeaseus, Prince of Milan. Trailly was in the re-
tinue of the Earl of Buckingham "on the sea" in September
1377;* and on the 6th March 13a6 he obtained letters of protec-
tion in consequence of serving in the army with whicli John of
Gant was going to Spain.* It seems that he continued abroad for
some years; for in May 1388 similar letters were issued lo him,
wherein it is stated that he was then in the King's service near
Bayonne, in the retinue of the King of Castile.* On the 28th
February 1390, Sir David and Sir Richard Cradock, Knights,
and Sir John Trailly, were associated wilh many other persons who
were previously appointed as conservators of the truce with France.'
Before January 1391, lie was selected to fill the responsible situa-
tion of Mayor of Bordeaux, which appointment was renewed
annually; " and by the designation of " Johan Trailly, Maire de
Burdeaux," he was joined with several persons to negociate a treaty
' " Come il serra Irove par le [laiis ;" wbich probably meant, •' as migUl he leamt
from the general repuUlion of the couuty."
' Escheat 34 Edw. III. n" 65. » Fsdera, iii. p' ii.
* Cvti;'sGaM;oii Itulb, il. r2l. ^ Ftrdeia, ui. p' iii. p. 194.
' Ftedera, iii. p' iv. p. 24. ' Fcidera, iii. p' iv, ji. 52.
* Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. I79, mi. la».
1
224 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib John of peace mth Spain in that month.^ In the 14th Ric. II. he was
a commissioner to treat with the Count d'Armagnac, with the view
of inducing him to come into the King^s allegiance ;^ but he did
not long survive the accession of Henry the Fourth, and the only
additional duties entrusted to him after that event, were to take
possession of the Duchy of Acquitaine, and to receive the homage
of the King's subjects in that province, the commission for which
purpose was dated 11th May, 1 Hen. IV. 1400.^ It is doubtful,
however, whether he lived to perform the office assigned to him ;
for in August following Sir Edward Thorp was appointed Mayor
of Bordeaux, and the escheat on Trailly'*s decease proves that
he died early in the first year of Henry'^s reign. His decease
took place at Bordeaux, and he was buried in the monastery of
the Friars Carmelites of that city, at which time he was about
fifty-six. By Joan his wife, who survived him until the 10th
Hen. VI., he left a son Reginald de Trailly, twenty-two years of
age. Sir John Trailly made a mil, but only an imperfect abstract of
it has been discovered, and neither the date nor probate is stated.
He styled himself " John Trailly, Knight, Mayor of Bordeaux,
son of John Trailly, Esquire (" and mentioned " his friend and'
brother Sir Richard Burley f ' and " his son Sir Reginald Trailly
by Dame Joan his wife."*'* It is not known whom Sir John Trailly
married; but from his calling Sir Richard Burley his " bro-
ther,^^ it is probable that his wife was a sister of that eminent
person.
Sir Reginald Trailly accompanied his father to Bordeaux,
and died there in the 3rd Hen. IV. witliout issue ; and his cousin
Mary, or Margery, wife of Sir William Hugford, daughter of
Katherine his great aunt, namely, sister of John Trailly his
grandfather, was found to be his heir.^ That lady appears to have
had two children : Alice, wife of Sir Thomas Lucy,^ and William
Hugford who died in vita matris, leaving Margery his daughter and
heiress. She was two years old at the death of her grandmother
in the 10th Hen. IV.,^ and died in the 1st Hen. V., leaving her
» Fcedera, iii. p'iv. p. 61. * Rot. Vase. 14 Ric. II. m. 1.
• Carte's Gascon Rolls, i. 184.
* Harleian MS. 6148, and printed in Testamenta Vetusta, p. 150.
« Esch. 3 Hen. IV. n« 37. « Esch. 1 Hen. V. n° 44.
^ Esch. 10 Hen. IV. n" 33. In the printed calendar she is called Mary,
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
aunt, Alice Lady Lucy abore mentioned, her heir. In the 10th Sm
Hen. VL, on the demise of Dame Joan Trailly, widow of Sir John,
the Deponent, her late husband's heir vas then found to be Sir
William Lucy, Knight, aged twenty-six years, son and heir of
the said Alice Lady Lucy."
Sir John Trailly deposed that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope
armed Azure, a bend Or, and many others of his nam^ and lineage
BO armed with differences, in expeditions and journeys in Spain
and Scotland ; and, by hearsay from competent and noble knights
now deceased, that the arms of Scrope had been borne in France,
Brittany, and Gascony during the whole reign of Edward the
Third; that the amis of the said Sir Richard had descended to him
by right of inheritance from beyond the time of memory, as the
public voice and fame testified. As to the challenge of the said •
Sir Richard to Sir Robert Grosvenor for the said arms, he had
never seen Grosvenor armed, nor ever heard any one speak of him
or of his ancestors until the last expedition in Scotland.
Sir John Trailly 's arms were, Or, a cross between four martlets
Gules.*
SIR JOHN GYBBETHORPE. A knightly and ancient f
family of the name of Gibthorpe was seated at Thorpe in Lincoln-
shire, but no person called John occurs in any of Ihe pedigrees of
it which have been consulted ; hence it is impossible to identify
the Deponent. He obtained letters of protection on the 6th March,
and of general attorney on the 12th April 1386, in consequence
of being about to serve in the army under John of Gant in Spain.'
Sir John Gybbelhorpe deposed that he had seen and known
Sir Richard Scrope armed in Scotland, and his banner publicly
borne, the field of which was Azure, with a bend Or ; and he never
in his time heard of any other person who had a right to bear the
said arms. As to Sir Robert Grosvenor, he had no knowledge of
him, nor ever heard any one speak of him or of his ancestors be-
fore the dispute arose in the last expedition in Scotland with the
King.
' Esch, 10 Hen. VI. d= 16.
' Roll of Asms in the possession or ibe Rev, John Newling, nnd other
authorities.
' FiEdera, iii, p' iii. pages 195. 198.
VOL. II. 2 a
226 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
The arms of the family of Gibthorpe of Lincolnshire were,
Quarterly, 1st and 4th Ermine, 2nd and 3rd Chequy Or and
Oules.
Hugh os
Cal^ley. HUGH DE CALVELEY, of the counts- of Chester. The
omission of the rank of this witness in the Roll might have rendered
it difficult to determine whether he was the renowned warrior Sir
Hugh de Calveley, whose name is identified with most of the
valorous exploits of the fourteenth century, or the nephew of that
celebrated hero, generally known as " Sir Hugh de Calveley the
I younger,"' were it not for the list of individuals who obtained
letters of protection in consequence of being in the army with
which Johnof Gant went to Spain in June 1386. In that record is
the name of " Hugh de Calveley, Esquire T^ which proves that
the Deponent was not the distinguished person of the name, because
the latter had attained the highest honours of chivalry many years
before 1386. Hugh de Calveley was the son of David de Calveley,
second son of David de Calveley of Lea in the county of Chester,
and brother of the celebrated Sir Hugh de Calveley above men-
tioned. It has not been ascertained when he was born, and the
first notice of him is in 1379, when he was abroad in the King's
service.^ He married the daughter and heiress of Handford
of Handford in Cheshire,^ and died on Monday after the feast
of Pope St. Leo, 30th June 1393, seised of lands in Calvelegh,
and of the manor of Mottram, with the exception of one-third
of that manor which was then held in dower by Agnes his mother,
who was the daughter and heiress of Mottram.*
Sir Hugh Calveley had three sons and two daughters: 1.
David de Calveley his son and heir, between six and seven years
old,* who on the death of his great-uncle Sir Hugh de Calveley,
a year afterwards, was found to be his heir, and eight years of
age;^ 2. Hugh de Calveley, who became heir to his brother David
in 9th Hen. IV. ; 3. Sir John de Calveley, who was Governor of
> Foedera, iii. p» iii. p. 195. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 131.
» Ormerod's History of Cheshire, ii. 419.
* Ormerod's History of Cheshire, vol. ii. p. 419. " Hugh de Calvelegh, junior,
miles, concessi &c. Hugoni seniori militi, duas partes terrai quas David de Calve-
legh, pater meus, perquisivit/* &c. Harleian MS. 2038. f. 23.
* Esch. 17 Ric. II. « Esch. 19 Ric. II. n' 17.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
227
Shotwick Castle, and died without issue :, 4. Margaret the wife of H""" "^
John Delves ; and 5. Alice. Hugh de Calveley, the second son
of the Deponent, left issue, and his descendants became extinct in
the male line in 164B, on the death of Sir Hugh de Calveley, whose
Bisters and coheirs were Elizabeth wife of Thomas Cotton of Com-
bermere, Esq. and Lettice the wife of Thomas Legh, D. D-'
The deposition of Sir Hugh de Calveley is remarkable for being
the first which states that the Grosvenors had greater right to the
disputed amis than the Scropes ; and if it be suggested, that from
his living in the same county with the former his testimony was
not wholly impartial, it ought to be remembered that the same
circumstance rendered him intimately acquainted with the repu-
tation, as to antiquity and respectability, of the Grosvenor family.
He deposed that he had seen and known Sir Richard Serope
armed, and with his banner. Azure, a bend Or; but he had heard
that Sir Robert Grosvenor had greater right to the said arms than
Sir Richard Scrojie : he added, however, that the first time he saw
the said Sir Robert armed in those arms was in the last expedition
in Scotland with the King.
The arms of Sir Hugh de Calveley were, Argent, on a fess
Gules, between three calves Sable, a mullet Argent.*
SIR ALEXANDER GOLDINGHAM. Though there are Sl«ALIlA^
numerous notices of the family of Gotdingham, which possessed
the manor of Chigwell in Essex, under the Lords Fitz Walter,' as
early as the reign of Henry the Second, the pedigree cannot be
traced with accuracy to the Deponent. He was however evi-
dently the representative of that family , as he po.ssessed Chigwell
at his decease, but the name of his father has not been ascertained.
In 137+, Sir Alexander obtained letters of protection, being
about to serve under John Duke of Brittany,* which were renewed
in the following year.* Similar letters were issued to him in con-
sequence of his being abroad in the King's service in May 1380;^
I Ormerod's History of Cheshire, ii. 419.
' Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling.
' Madox's Foraiulare Anglicanum.
• Fudera, N. E. vol. iii. p. 1009.
' Carte's UascuD Itolls, ii. 114. * Carte's Ca«:oii Rolb, i:
228 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
SirAlbxander and again on the 6th March 1386, when he was about to accompany
John of Gant to Spain.^ Such are the trifling records of a knight
who seems from his deposition to have been distinguished by the
length and variety of his services. Nofe, at the capture of which
he states that he was present, is presumed to be Novi in Lombardy ;
but, as has been before remarked,* he was mistaken as to the
parentage of Sir Henry Scrope, to whom he alludes.
Ooldingham made his Will in 1408, wherein he described
himself " of Chigwell.'' He bequeathed his lands in Chigwell,
in Eltesby in Cambridgeshire, and in Great Gransden in Hunting-
donshire, to Isabella his wife for her life, with remainder to Sir
Walter Goldingham, knight, his son, with remainder to his
second son John Goldingham.' As his Will was proved in 1409,
the date of his decease is fixed to between 1408 and 1409- The
family name of his wife has not been discovered, nor is any thing
more known of his issue excepting that his eldest son Sir Walter
Groldingham served in the expedition under Henry the Fifth in
France in 1415, and was at the battle of Agincourt in the retinue
of Sir Thomas Erpingham.*
Sir Alexander Goldingham deposed that he had seen and known
Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, and his banner
in Scotland of the same arms ; and that one Sir William Scrope,
who was son of Sir Henry Scrope, was armed in Lombardy with
the same arms with a difference, in the company of the Earl of
Hereford, at the taking of Nofe, and shortly afterwards the said
Sir William passed the Great Sea in the company of his said Lord,
add there died ; that he had well known and seen others of his
lineage bearing the same arms with differences; that he had
oftentimes heard from great lords and noble and valiant knights,
that the said arms had descended by right line of ancestry to the
said Sir Richard, who were always in possession of the said
arms from beyond the time of memory, as common fame testified.
As to Sir Robert Grosvenor, never at any time, or in any place,
had he known him or heard speak of him, until the dispute which
began in Scotland in the last expedition with the King.
> Foedera, iii. p' iii. p. 194.
» Page 107. » Testamenta Vetusta, i. 193.
* History of the Battle of Agincourt.
SIR RICHARD SCKOPE.
The arms of Goldinghatn of Suflblk are said to have been^
Argent, a bend wavy Gules;' or, according to another and
perhaps better authority, Barry nebulee Argent aud Gules, a label
Azure ;^ but it is doubtful if there was any connection between
the Goldinghams of Suffolk and those of Essex.
JOHN M YN YOT, Esquire. So little appears to be recorded Jobs Mvn
of the pedigree of the Mynyot family, that it is impossible to
speak with certainty on the subject. The name, however, pos-
sesses some literary celebrity from the circumstance of a small
volume of poems' having been written by a Laurence Minot in
the fourteenth century, which is not without merit, describing
some of the most important events in the early part of the reign
of Edward the Third.
The Deponent possessed the manor of Carlton in Yorkshire, and
was probably the son of John Mynyot, who held three parts of a
knight's fee of the manor of Thresk, under John Lord Mowbray,
in 1st Edward III.* and who obcaineil a grant of free warren in
Carlton, Calton, Hoton, and Skipton upon Swale in that county,
in the 7th Edward 111. 1333.' On the 2nd of August 1351, a
John Mynyot was a commissioner to inquire by tlie oath of a
Jury of the county of York, concerning offences which had been
committed by John Abbot of Bellaland and his monks, in break-
ing into the park of Hugh Archbishop of Damascus, at Newstead
near Boghland, stealing his cattle and other goods, destroying
his grass, and assaulting and wounding his servants.*
In 1369 a John Mynyot held the seal which was appointed for
the Prince of Wales at Saint Maxent;^ but the name does not
again occur in records uoiil after the accession of Richard the
Second. Between the 3rd and 7th Ric. II. the Deponent was
retained to serve John of Gant for life, as well in peace as in
war,^ and served under that prince in liis expedition to Spain in
1
• ViDCGDt's Suffolk, fo. 61 b.
' Roll of Arms temp. Edw. II, 8to. 1828, where tliai coai is aUribL
Sii Alan Goldini^liam of Suffolk.
' Printed by Kilsoo, Bvo. 1795, and lately reprinted.
' Calend. Inq. Post Mortem, vol. ii. p. 6. " C'alend, Rol. Cart, j
• Fcfdeo», iii. pM. p. 71. ' Fcedera, N.E. lii. p,860,
• Regbttuin Johannis Ducia Lancasiri^.
230 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
JohnMynyot, 1386, in consequence of which he received letters of protection,
wherein he is described as " Johannes Mynyot de Carleton, alias
dictus Johannes Mynyot de Bekeryng, Armiger.?'^ It has not
been discovered when he died, or whether he left any descendants.
Johti Mynyot deposed to the same effect as many of the pre-
ceding vdtnesses, as to the usage and right of the Scrope family to
the disputed arms, and never, he said, in all his life heard to the
contrary until the last expedition in Scotland. Of Grosvenor he
knew nothing, nor of his progenitors, until the commencement of
the controversy.
The arms ascribed to the name of Miniot are. Argent, three
helmets with open vizors, and adorned with plumes of feathers
Argent.^^
Sir Richard SIR RICHARD ADDERBURY THE SoN, was the son of
Addbrbury. , , ,
Su: Richard Abberbury, or, as the name was commonly written,
Adderbury,^ Chamberlain of John of Gant Duke of Lancaster,
who being also a deponent in the controversy, as well as one of the
commissioners to examine witnesses, will be afterwards particu-
larly noticed.
Sir Richard Abberbury the Son was probably born about
1355, as his father stated himself to be fifty-seven in 1387. The
first time he is mentioned after he gave his testimony, whence
it appears that he had served in the expedition in Scotland in
1385, and, it may be inferred, accompanied John of Gant to Spain
in June 1386, is on the 17th of August 1394, when by the style
of "Richard Abberbury, junior, Knight of the King^s chamber,^
he was appointed a Commissioner to treat with the Duke of Ba-
varia for a permanent peace.'^ A new commission for the same
purpose, but with extended powers, was issued to him and his
colleagues on the 14th July 1395 ;^ and John of Gant, by his
Will dated 3rd February 1397, bequeathed him fifty marks by
the description of " Mons*^ Ric' Aburbury le fils.*" ^ He obtained
* Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 190.
* Philipot's Ordinary of Arms, f. 140 b.
' The various ways in which the name is spelt in records is remarkable : Adder-
bury, Abberbury, Atterbury, Aburbury, and Abderbury.
* Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 101.
* Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 109. « Nichols's Royal WUls, p. 159.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 23
letters of general attorney in consequence of going abroad in the Sir Ricms
King's service on the 1st November 1401, 21st February 1410,
and agaia on the 4lh May 1411.' It has not been ascertained when
he died.
He deposed to having seen Sir Ricliard Scrope armed, and
with his banner publicly borne, in expeditions and journeys, as
well as others of his name and lineage armed in the same arms
with differences ; in which arms he had often heard old men now
deceased say, that the Scropes had acquired great honour; atid
that he had also heard from valiant lords and noble knights
and esquires, that the said arms had descended to Scrope by
inheritance. Of Grosvenor lie never heard any one speak, nor
of his ancestors, until the last expedition in Scotland.
Sir Richard Abberbury's arms were. Or, a fess double embat-
tled at the top Sable, a label Gules for difference.''
SIR JOHN DE WILTON. The family to which this s.hJ<.b
knight belonged was of the county of Norfolk, but the name
of his father has not been discovered. It seems that Sir John
de Wilton was the " John de Wilton junior" who formed part
of the retinue of Thomas Duke of Clarence in his journey to
Italy, to espouse the daughter of the Prince of Milan in the
spring of 1386, on which occasion he obtained letters of pro-
tection for one year.' His deposition proves that he had repeat-
edly served in the field; that he was in the expedition in Scot-
land in 1385; and from his being examined at Plymouth in June
1386, that he accompanied John of Gant to Spain in that year.
In April 1399 he again received letters of protection, being about
to attend the King to Ireland;' and on the 10th November 1408
a commission was issued to the Abbot of Wendlyng in Norfolk to
prove his Will in the diocese of Norwich, and to grant letters of
administration to his executors.
Sir John Wilton was probably the person for whom an inscrip-
tion on brass formerly occurred in Alderford church in Norfolk,
with the arms of Wilton, impaling Azure, an escocheon within an
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 182. 198. 202.
' KoU of Amu in tbe possession of the Rev. John Newliogi Canon of Lich-
' Fifdeia, iiu p' ii. p. 1
' Foidera, iii. p' iv.p. 160.
332
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Johh db
Wilton.
orle of martlets Argent, Walcot ;^ whence it would appear that
he married a member of that family ; but nothing is known of his
descendants.
Wilton deposed that he had seen and known Sir Richard
Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, and others of his lineage with
differences, and never in all his life knew any other person bear
those arms excepting Sir Richard and his family ; that he never
in his life heard otherwise than that Sir Richard was Lord of .
those arms, which had descended to him by inheritance from be-
yond the time of memory, according to public fame. Of Grosvenor,
or of his ancestry, he never heard until the last expedition in Scot-
land, when Sir Richard challenged him.
His arms were, Oules, on a chevron Argent, three cross cross-
lets fitchee of the first.^
SiB Abnald
St. Lfoes-
SIR ARNALD ST. LEGER was the second son of Ralph
St. Leger, Lord of the Manor of Ulcomb in Kent, who died
before 1359, in which year Joan his widow made her Will;
and from an account rendered by her executors Sir Arnold
Savage and Thomas Parker, dated 4th April 1359« it appears
that she left five children: Ralph, Arnold, Henry, Bartholo-
mew, and Eleanor.^ Ralph St. Leger, the eldest son, had two
children, who died issueless ; and Sir Arnold, the Deponent, seems
to have become the representative of the family. In 1377 he
was returned to Parliament as Knight of the Shire for Kent,*
and shortly afterwards was in the retinue of John Lord Cobham
** on the sea^ in the King'^s service, and received letters of pro-
tection for one year.* St. Leger was in the expedition in Scot-
land in 1385; and from his having been examined at Plymouth
in June 1386, it would seem that he went to Spain in the army of
John of Gant.
As the date of his death is not known, it is uncertain whether
it was he, or his son of the same name, who granted the Vicar of
1 Blomefield's History of Norfolk, folio, vol. iy. p. 360. On another stone in
that church are the arms of Chape impaling those of Wilton.
' Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling.
* Testamenta Vetusta, i. 64.
* Hasted's History of Kent, vol. iii. p. 322.
^ Carte's Gascon Rolls, 1 Ric II. vol. ii. p. 121.
SIR RICHARD SCEOPE.
Hollingboiime in Kent a messuage for himself and his
on the 14th August, 1407.' ^'^
Sir Am aid had by Joan his wife three sons: 1. Amald; 2.
John ; and 3. Thomas, who as well as their mother were living in
1386>' Amald St, Leger, the eldest son, was father of John St.
Leger, Sheriff of Kent in the 9th Hen. VI., who died in the 20th
Hen. VI. leaving a daughter, Florence, who married, first, John
Clifford of Borscomb, and secondly John Brockman of Essex;
and three sons ; 1. Ralph St. Leger of Alcomb, Estj. ancestor of
Sir Anthony St. Leger, KG. Lord Deputy of Ireland in the reign
of Henry the Eighth ; 2. Sir Thomas St . Leger, who married Anne
Duchess of Exeter, sister of King Ed-ward the Fourth ; and 3.
Sir James St. Leger, who married Anne daughter and coheiress of
James Boteler, Earl of Ormond.
Sir Amald St. Leger deposed to having seen Sir Richard Scrope
and his relations armed in the disputed bearings; that in no
place where he had been armed had he known or heard of any
one being armed in these arms, unless he were of the blood of the
said Sir Richard Scrope ; that he never in his life heard to the
contrary, but that he had often heard in different places from
divers knights and esquires, that the fiaid arms had descended to
Scrope by right of inheritance from beyond the time of memory,
as the public voice and fame testified. As to Sir Robert Grosvenor,
he never heard any one speak of him, or of any of his blood, until
ihe last expedition in Scotland with the King.
The arms of Sir Arnold St. Leger were. Azure frette Argent,
a chief Or.
SIR THOMAS SALIVAN. Difficult as it has been found ^'«^
in some instances to identify the Deponents, the attempt has in no
case been more unsuccessful than with respect to Sir Thomas
Salivan ; nor can even a conjecture be hazarded as to the family to
which he belonged, without transposing the second vowel in his
name, and presuming that he was a member of the ancient house
' Hasled'a History of Ken I, vol, ii. p. 471.
' Hailed, vol. ii. p. 465, says, there is in Ihe Surrenden Library a deed of Sir
Amald Si. Leger, dated at Pluckley, 9 Ric. II. 'by which he enfeoffed William
Coppeshull, Paraon of Pluckley, to the use of himself and Joane his wife, remain-
der (o Amald his eldest son, remainder to John his son,remainderloThomaahi8 8on.
VOL. II. 2 B
234 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas of Salvaine of Yorkshire, the representative of which, Sir Gerald
Salvaine, was a witness in favour of Sir Richard Scrope.^
Of a Sir Thomas Salvaine, however, nothii^ appears to be
known ; and all which has been ascertained about the Deponent is
derived from his deposition, in which he averred that he had seen
and known Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, and many
others of his lineage with differences, in expeditions and journeys ;
BXid that he had often heard, previously to the controversy, that
the said arms had defended to Sir Richard, and belonged to him,
as public opinion proved. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor he had never
heard, nor of his arms, nor of his ancestors being armed in any
place, until the last expedition in Scotland.
Peter Rods, PETER ROOS, EsQuiRE, was, he himself says, the son of
^- Sir Thomas Roos of Kendale, who wa« also a witness in the
Scrope and Grosvenor trial ; and in the notice of him in a sub-
sequent page some particulars of the family will be found. The
Deponent^s mother was a daughter of Sir John Preston of West-
moreland,^ and he was probably bom about 1335.^ His name
has however been found in only one record, namely, in the list of
those who were retained to serve John of Gant for life between the
3rd and 7th Ric. II.*
Peter Roos deposed to having seen Sir Richard Scrope and
many others of his lineage, use the disputed arms, in divers
expeditions and journeys; and that he had heard his father
Sir Thomas Roos of Kendal say, that he never in his time knew
of any other man being armed in the said arms excepting the said
Sir Richard and his lineage, who, according to public opinion,
had inherited them from beyond the time of memory. As to Sir
Robert Grosvenor, he never knew him, nor heard any one speak
of him or his ancestors, until the last expedition in Scotland
with the King.
The arms of Roos of Kendal were. Or, three water bougets
Sable ; but they were probably borne by the Deponent with some
mark of cadency.
* See Depositions, vol. i. p. 136. * Vincent's MS. n° 20. f. 230.
^ His elder brother, John Roos, died in 1337, leaving a daughter two years old.
* Hegistrum Johannis Ducis Lancastriae.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN BY SIR JOHN KENTWODE AT
TIVERTON, IN THE MANOR OF THE EARL OF DEVON-
SHIRE, AND IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF EDESLEGH,'
IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON, ON THE 12* JULY,
10 RIC n. 1386.
THE EARL OF DEVONSHIRE. Edward Coubten4Y, ^-^'
THiRB Eaul of Devon, the representative of tlie English branch
of the illustrious house of Courtenay, was the eldest son of Sir
Edward Courtenay, knight, who died in vitSi patris, by Emmeline
daughter and heiress of Sir John Dawney, and suceeeded his grand-
father Hugh second Earl of Devon on the 2nd May 1377,' at
which time he was twenty years of age, having been born on the
3rd May 13.57. Through his grandmother Margaret daughter
of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford, by the Princess
Elizabeth, daugliter of King SIdward tb* First, the young Earl
was nearly related to the King, this being the first of the three
alliances which his family formed with the blood royal.
At the time of giving his testimony in the Scrope and Gros-
venor controversy he was twenty-nine years of age, and had fre-
quently served in the field and in naval conflicts; hence the
allusion to his youth and inexperience seems unnecessary. As
early as 1377 he was retained to serve the King " on the sea,''
under the Duke of Lancaster for one quarter of a year, and shortly
afterwards, under Thomas Earl of Buckingham, for another quar-
ter, with eighty men-at-arms and eighty archers,' with which he
landed at Calais with Buckingham in 1380. He received the ho-
nour of knighthood before Ardres from the Earl of Buckingham's
own hand, and particularly distinguished himself in the attack of
the Tower of Folant. Standing on the dikes with his banner
borne before Mm, he bravely exclaimed, " Sirs, how is it that noU
" withstanding our new knighthood, this dovecot thus holds out
I " Zedeleye" in p. 73, and " Yerdeley" in p. 45 ; bul there is no parisl. of
either of these names in Devonshire. Ede»leigh, or, as it is now called, Iddealeigh,
is presumed to be meant, from that place being the property of Sir John Sully.
See vol. i. p. 46.
' Esch.51 Edw.lIL n-'e.
' Uugdale'a Baroaage, i. 640. See Froissarlpar Buclion,tomevii. p. 96.
2u2
236: DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Earl of « a^^ainst US ? We shall indeed be kept lonff before the castles and
Devonshire. *^ . .
*^ other strong places in France, if such a place as this can detain
" us. Forward I forward ! and let us display our chivalry r En-
couraged by this address, his retinue advanced boldly against the
tower, which soon surrendered.^
In December 1380, the Earl of Devon was in the army in
Brittany, and being in command of the watch ^ at the siege of
Nantes on the night of the 24th of December, a sortie was made
from the town, when a sharp skirmish took place.^ He continued
for some months in Brittany, and witnessed a " fait d^armes*"
between three English knights and three knights of Hainault,
at Vannes, in the following year,* soon after which he returned
to England, and was present at the reconciliation between the
Duke of Lancaster and the Earl of Northumberland at a grand
ffite at Westminster on the 15th August 1381.* On the 12th
November 1384 he was appointed Admiral of the King^s fleet
from the mouth of the Thames westward ; ^ and in the next year,
8tb Ric. II., was Earl Marshal of England.^ About that time he
was a Commissioner for punishing some rioters who had assembled
at Topsham, and compelled Peter Hill, a messenger of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, to eat the impression of a seal of that pre-
late, which, it is presumed, was attached to some instrument ob-
noxious to the people.® In 1385, the Earls of Devon and Salis-
bury received the young Queen at Gravelyng, escorted her to
Calais, and thence to London.^ Richard the Second invaded Scot-
land in the same year, on which occasion the Earl of Devon served
in the rear guard with sixty men-at-arms and sixty archers.^® In
1386 he was commanded to repair to Southampton with 200 men-
at-arms and 600 archers, for the safety of the harbour, in case of
attack by the enemy ;" and in 1387 he was appointed a member
of the King's council. ^^ He served in the fleet commanded by
Richard Earl of Arundel," which defeated the French, Flemish,
* Froissart par Buchon, vii. p. 315. 317. 319. 355. 356.
» " Guet." » Froissart, yii. p. 400. < Froissart, vii. p. 417.
* Froissart, viii. 74. « Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 144.
' Dugdale, i. 640. Ex ipso autogr. penes Cleric. Pells.
* Cleveland's History of the House of Courtenay.
» Froissart, viii. 121. *« Archaologia, xxii. p. 18. Froissart, ix. 135.
" Froissart, x. 175. " Froissart, xi. 28. »' Froissart, x. 323.
SIR RICHARD SCHOPE.
237
and Spanish fleets, and captured about one hundred sail of vessels R
laden with wine ; and in May in the year following embarked
with the army at Southampton for Brittany ;' and was present at
the capture of the town of Brest. Early in 1389 the Earl was in
the expedition* which took the Isles of Rhee and Oleron ; and in
May in that year he was present in the King's council at White-
hall, when definitive sentence was pronounced in the Scrope and
Grosvenor cause.'
On the accession of Henry the Fourth, the Earl of Devon was
appointed High Steward of England for the trial of the Peers who
had conspired against the King. For many years preceding his
death he lost his eyesight, and was, the eloquent Gibbon observes,
*' surnamed, from his misfortune, the blind— from his virtues, the
*' good Earl." This calamity accounts for his not having taken a
more active part in public affairs during the reigns of Henry the
Fourth and Fifth, and explains the cause of his retainers, which
consisted of thirty men-at-arms and ninety archers, being command-
ed at the siege of Harfleur, and at Agincourt, in 1*15,* as well as
in the next invasion of France,* by his eldest son. Sir Edward
Courtenay. The Earl was however present in Parliament on the
22nd December 1406, and sealed the instrument by which the
crown was settled on the issue of Henry the Fourth."
The Earl of Devon made his Will at Tiverton on the 29th June,
and died there on the 5lh December 1419, in the sixty-third year
of his age. He was bui-ied in the Abbey of Ford ; and, again to
use the words of Gibbon, " his epitaph inculcates, with much
" ingenuity, a moral sentence, which may however be abused by
" thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the
" fifty-five' years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with
" Mabel his wife, the good Earl thus speaks from the tomb ; —
Cdljat tur qait, tuc itabt;
aat)»t toe dptnt, iDt ftati ;
mi)at iDt left, isi lait."
' Froissarl, xi. '!55. ' Dugdale's Baronage, 1.640.
' CoUina's Peerage, vol. vi. p. 245.
* Vol.i. 330.
' Ilistocy of the Battle of AgincDurt.
• Hot. Pari, iii.582, S83.
> If this be correct, ihe £arl musi hi
only eight yean old.
; been contracted to his Coimless when
238 DEPONENTS IX FAVOUB OF
Eabl or He married Maud daughter of Thomas Lord Camois, and had
crov»BiBE. i^y j^^ ^^^^ ^^^ according to some authorities, three sons, Eldward,
Hugh, and James ; and a daughter, Elizabeth, whose name does
not occur in any pedigree of the family : she married, first, John
Lord Harington, and secondly Sir William Bonvile of Chuton,
but died without issue in 1471.* Sir Eklward Courtenay, the
eldest son, has been already mentioned : his wife was Eleanor
daughter of Roger Elarl of March, the representative, throu^ his
grandmother, of Lionel Duke of Clarence, third son of King Ed-
ward the Third, and sister of Anne Mortimer who conveyed the
right to the throne to the House of York. Sir Edward died with-
out issue in 1418. 2. Hugh Courtenay, who succeeded his father
as fourth Earl of Devon ; and 3. James Courtenay, of whom all
which is known is, that he is said to have been in the wars of
France in the 8th Hen. VI.«
Hugh fourth Earl of Devon died in 1421, and was succeeded
by his son Thomas the fifth Earl, on whose death, in 1458, his son
Thomas succeeded as sixth Earl, who, as an adherent of Henry
the Sixth, was attainted and beheaded in 1461. Dying unmarried,
his heir was Henry Courtenay his brother, who was bdieaded in
March 1466, and attainted. His brother. Sir John Courtenay, who
was also attainted in 1461 was his heir, and styled himsdf Earl of
Devon. He was slain at Tewksbury in 1471, and dying un-
married, his two sisters, Joan wife of Sir Roger Clifford, who left
issue, and Elizabeth the wife of Sir Hugh Conway, who died with-
out children, were his heirs.
On the accession of Henry the Seventh, Sir Edward Courtenay
of Boconnoc in Cornwall, grandson of Sir Hugh Courtenay, a
younger brother of Edward third Earl of Devon, being then
heir male of his family, was rewarded for the unshaken loyalty
which he, as well as his ancestors, had manifested to the House
of Lancaster, by being created to their ancient title of Earl of
Devon by patent, dated on the 26th October, 1st Hen. VII.
1485, with remainder to the heirs male of his body, and was
honoured with the Garter. His son Sir William Courtenay pre-
sents the second instance in his family of an alliance with the
sister of the heiress to the throne, he having married Katherine
daughter and coheiress of King Edward the Fourth, and sister of
» Each. 11 Edw. IV. n» 64. ' Dugdale's Baronage, i. 641.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 239
the Queen Consort. As he was attainted in hia father's lifetime, he E*»
did not succeed to the Earldom, but a few weeks before his decease,
which happened on the 9th June 1511, he was treated Earl of De-
von to him and his issue male, by charter dated 10th May in that
year. Henry his only surviving son became Earl of Devon under
the patent of 1511, and, on the attainder of his father being re-
versed in the 4th Henry VIII., also under the patent of I486.
In 1525 he was created Marquess of Exeter, and was elected a
Knight of the Garter, but was beheaded and attainted in 1639,
when all his honours were lost by forfeiture. Sir Edward
Courtenay bis only son, " the beautiful youth on whose story the
" secret love borne him by Queen Mary has shed a romantic in-
" terest,"' continued a prisoner until her accession, when he was
fully restored in blood, and was created Earl of Devon by patent
dated at Richmond on the 3rd September, 1st Mary 1553, with
remainder to " his heirs male for ever," and granting him and
them the same precedence as any of his ancestors, Earls of Devon,
had held and enjoyed. The Earl died unmarried at Padua on the
18th September 155ti, and the peculiar limitation of the patent of
15.53 having been forgotten, the Earldom of Devon was considered
to be lost to the Cflnrtenay family ; and, says Gibbon, " his per-
" sonal honors, as \fthey had been iegallif extinct, were revived by
" the patents of succeeding princes," though a younger branch,
" whose plaintive motto- asserted the innocence and deplored the
" fall of their ancient house,"^ was then living in great honour at
Fowderham in Devonshire. The doubt thus accidentally thrown
on the extinction of the Earldom of Devon has proved to be well
founded ; for, on the recent claim of the present Viscount Courte-
nay to that dignity as next heir male of Edward Earl of Devon
the grantee in 1553, namely, heir male of the body of Sir Philip
Courtenay of Powderham. younger son of Hugh second Earl of
Devon, the House of Lords resolved, on the 15th March 1831, that
his Lordship had made out his claim ; and he has thus become
the TWELnn* Earl of Devon of the name of Courtenay. By that
' Gibbon's Decline and Fall of iliG Homim Empire.
The ancient motto of the Powdeiham
bwnch »a» " PissEz bien devant." ' Gibbon.
' la considering the present Earl the tietiftU Earl of Devon, Jobo brother of
Thonaa the sixth Earl is included, because it is nearly certain that he waa restored
Id the dignity by the Farliuuent of ifae 49th Hen. VI.
SfTLLT.
240 DEPOXXyXS IX FAVOnt OF
dedsoo JEistice has at length been rendered to a fannly that
yields to none in the antiquhr and splendour of its descent, in
its iUustriocis aDiances, or in the conspiciious station which it
occupies in the history of this country; for the hdr male ha»
lecoTored those honours whidi the elder branches of his house
enjoyed for upwards of two centuries, and of which their inflexible
loyalty to their sorerdgn alone prerented his immediate ancestors
from inheriting.
The Earl of Devonshire being prayed and required by the
proctor for Sir Ridiard Scrope, to be euunined by Sir John Kent-
wode in his manor of Tirerton^ said, on his diiTalry, that he is
young, and had the experience of a short time only ; but added,
that in his time he had seen and known the sakl Sir Richard to be
armed on his body in the hist expedition in Scotland with the
King, the fidd of his arms Azure, with a bend Or, and his banner
publidy borne during the whole expedition ; and said that he had
beard that the said arms appertained of right and of inheritance
to the said Sir Ridiard, and never heard to the contranr. As to
Sir Robert GrosTenor, he had never heard aught of him or of
his ancestry until the last expedition in Scotland with the King.
The arms of the Earl ci Devon were. Or, three torteaux, a
label of three points Azure.
SIR JOHN SULLY, K.G. This venerable Knight, who
states himself to have been one hundred and five vears of age, was
descended from a younger brandi of the family of SuUy of Edes-
I^h, or Iddeskigfa, in Devonshire, and appears to have succeeded
to that property as heir male.' He possessed Edesl^h in the 29th
* In the 27 Hen. III. Rajmood de SaQj held Edeslegfa in Derooshire ; in the
24 Edw. I. Henrr de Sallj held the same of Walter de SuIIt ; in the 8 Edw. II.
it was held bv Joan de Sollj ; and in the 39 Edw. III. by John de Sally.~PoIe*s
CoUectioos ht Dctoq, p. 380. Walter de Sallv died in the 14 Edw. I. learing
by Mabil hs wife, (who died in 5 Edw II.) daughter of Ro^er de Somerj Baron of
Dudkr, and coheir of Nicola his wife, the sister and coheiress of Hugh de Albini
Eaii of Anmdel, RajmoDd de Sullj, who was twentr-three yeais of age in the
14 Edw. I. and two daughters, Sybilla and Nichola. SybiUa appesirs lo have been
twice married : first, to de ATene, by whom she had a sod, Lezant de Avene^
bAer of John de Avene ; and secondly to Guy de Bryan, by whom (who died in
35 Edw. L) she had Guy de Bryan. Nichola was the wife of le Flemyi^e,
SIR RICHARD SCIIOPE. 241
yearof Edw. III.;' and his deposition was taken at his house there, ^
he being unable to travel on account of his age." Nothing can
with certainty be said of his parents; nor is it positively known
whether he left descendants.^ It appears that he passed the
greater part of his life in the field, and that he was the " hero of a
hundred battles." He was at the battle of Halidon Hill in Scot-
land, and at the taking of Berwick in July 1333.* On the 12th
July 1338 he was in France, in the retinue of the Earl of Salis-
bury ;* and was present at the battle of Cressy in August in 1346.
In 1350 he was at the sea-fight under King Edward the Third
in person, when a complete victory was gained over the Spanish
fleet, thence called the battle of Espagnols-sur-mere. Sully was
in Oascony with the Black Prince in 1355 and 1356,^ and a
payment was mode to him at Bordeaux on the 1st October 1355
by the hands of Richard Baker his esquire,' On the 17th Sep-
uod had a son, William le Flemynge, father of John Flemjnge. Ilaymond Sully,
son and heiT o( Walter Sully and Mabil Somcry, died in the 10 Edw. 11. leaving
Etiiabeih his daughter and heiress aged twenty, the wife of William de Brewes,
who died wiUioul issue. Escheats H Ediv. I. n" 1 j 5 Edw. II. n" 12; 10
Edw. IE ii" sa ; and 3.5 Edw. I. n" 32 ; Pedigree by Glover and Pole's Col-
lections for Devon, p. S74. The following auecdoie of a Sir John Sully U re-
lated by Pole, p. 83. " Sir John SuMy, renowned for his exploits in the Holy
Land against the Saracens, in which he was weakened by many wounds, re*
turned home after many years' discontinuance ; whereupon his officers bring-
ing in tlie accounts of his rent, which amounted to a ^reat mass of money, he
caused his cloak, being of clolh of gold, to be spread on the ground, and com-
manding the money to be put therein, cast himself thereinto, that it might be said
for once he tumbled in gold and silver ; whereof he afterwards gave one pari to his
wife, a second to his officers and tenants, and a third part lo the poor,''
' Pole's Collections for Devon, p. 390; and in p. 61 of that work, Pole include»
Sir John Sully of Edeslegh or Iddesleigh among the eniineul persons in Devonshire
in the reign of Richard the Second. ' Vol, i. p. 46.
* Polwheie, however, says, that Sir John Sully, the last of this family, married
one of the coheiresses of the Baron of Torrington, and led an only daughter who
married a kniglil of Somersetshire of the name of Vowel, from whom the family
of Smith inherited a moiety of the maoor of Iddesleii;h. History of Devonshire,
p. 415.
' A John de Sully, who may have been the Deponent, was summoned lo serve
against the Scotch with horse and arms on the 30lh of June, 8 Edw. 11. 1315.
RoL Scoc. i. 146. ^ Ftedera, ii. p' iv. p 27.
' Fodera, iii, p' i. p. 121.
Privy Purse Expenses of the Prince of Wales, in the office of the Duchy of
%
242 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir John tember 1356 he shared in the honours of Poictiers ; and letters of
ULLY, . . protection were issued to him in 1359, when he was in the army in
Oascony.^ In 1361 he obtained the following singular grant from
the King : that he might once in every year during his life, in
any of the royal forests, parks, or chases in the realm, have one
shot with his bow, one course with his hounds, and one chase
for his dog called " Bercelette.""*
The merits of Sir John Sully were about this time rewarded in
the most striking manner. On the feast of St. George 1362 he
was elected into the Order of the Garter, in the ninth stall on the
Princess side, in lieu of Sir Reginald Cobham ; and the plate of
his arms was still remaining in the reign of Charles the Second.'
In 1362 he was a mainpernor for John de Saint Low the son,
and Matthew de Goumay, then prisoners in the Tower of Lon-
don.* Sully again accompanied the Prince of Wales to Gascony
in 1365,* and in April 1367 was at the battle of Najara. Three
years afterwards, in 1370, he again received letters of protection,
being about to serve in Acquitaine;^ and as he was then nearly
ninety, it is not surprising that his name does not afterwards occur
in public records until his appearance as a witness in favour of Sir
Richard Scrope. He seems to have then retired from public life,
attended by Richard Baker his faithful esquire, who, having par-
taken of his master^s toils and dangers, became the companion of
his latter years. Sully must have died about 1388, as he is not
noticed in the records of the Garter after that year.
Sir John Sully, of the age of one hundred and five years, and
armed eighty years, deposed that he had seen and known the arms
. of Sir Richard Scrope, borne by Sir Henry Scrope, at the battle of
Halidon Hill, the field Azure, a bend Or, with a label Argent.
He afterwards saw the said Sir Henry armed in the same arms at
Cornwall. Payments are also recorded to haye been made to Sully at Bordeaux, in
December 1355, January, April, and May, 1356 ; and, on the 30tb of June 1356, he
received 27/. in person, of the gift of the Prince. ' Fcedera, iii. p' i. p. 443.
* Rot. Pat. 35 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 27.
' Ashmole's MS. Collections for the Order of the Garter in the Ashmolean
Museum. Sir John Sully was one of the Knights who subscribed IOO5. towards
the College of Windsor.
* Foedera, N. E. iii. p. 648. * Foedera, N. E. iii. p. 765. 809.
6 Ibid. p. 888.
sin RICHARD SCROPE,
243
the siege of Berwick ; Sir William Scrope at the battle of Cressy, Sm
so armed with a difference ; the said Sir Richard armed in the same
arras at the Imttle of Espagnols-sur-mere i and afterwards saw the
said Sir William Scrope armed in the same arms with the Prince
St the battle of Poictiers, and the said Sir Richard so armed at the
battle of Spain, [Najara. j Sully said he hud also seen and known
others of the name and lineage armed in the same arms in journeys
and expeditions, with differences; and in his time he had always
heard that the said arms belonged to Sir Richard Scrope by de-
scent, who, with others of his lineage, had peaceably enjoyed them
from beyond the time of memory. As to Sir Robert Grosvenor, he
never saw or heard of him or of his ancestors, until the time of his
examination.
The arms of the family of Sully were, Ermine, three chev-
ronels Gules,' but. according to the plate of the Deponent's arms
in his stall at Windsor, he bore Ermine, four barrulets Gules ; and
two bulls horns for his Crest. ^
RICHARD BAKER. Esquire. Excepting that in 1366 he R'c
obtained letters of protection, beinfr then in the King's service in
Gascony,^ it is from his deposition alone that information is to be
derived of this individual. When examined in the controversy,
it would appear that he was residing with or near Sir John
Sully, of whom, for the long period of forty years, he was the
companion in arms.
Richard Baker, of the age of sixty, armed forty years with Sir
John Sully, deposed that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope, his
body armed in a coat armour of Blue with a bend Or, and also
others of his lineage, as Sir Henry Scrope and Sir William
Scrope, and many others armed with differences, in battles, jour-
neys, and expeditions ; and that public report testified that the
said arms had descended from his ancestors to the said Sir Richard.
■ Pole's Collections for Devon, p. &03 ; who menlions a\ao as a coal of Sully,
Argent, three chevronela Gules ; and two other coals with the same charges, the one
differenced by an annulet on ilie first chevronel, aod the other by a martlet Or.
' Ashmole's MS. Note of his plate slates, that the name under it was " Sm
John Sulby ;" but this may hare been an error of the engraver or EOpyiat,
' llot-Vasc. 30 Edw. III. in. 1.
2l -2
244 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
As to Sir Robert Grosvenor, he had never heard of him, or of
his ancestors, until the time of this examination.
Sir James SIR JAMES CHUDLEGH was the repre^ntative of an
ancient Devonshire family, which acquired the manor of Ashton
by marriage with the heiress of Prouz in the reign of Edward the
Second. The pedigrees of Chudlegh differ materially from each
other; and as scarcely any dates occur in the account of the
family by Pole,^ Prince,* or Collins,' or in the Heralds^ Visita-
tions, and as there are no records by which to verify or disprove
the various statements, it is extremely difficult to decide which is
the most correct. The general accuracy of Sir William Pole, and
the means which he possessed of obtaining information, appear
however to entitle his narrative to adoption.
According to that writer,* John Chudlegh who married Tho-
mazine daughter of Richard Prouz, about the year 1320,^ had
a son John Chudlegh, who, by Joan daughter of Sir John Beau-
champ of Ryme, left a son Sir James Chudlegh, who is presumed
to be the Deponent. He must have been born as early as 1336,
as he says he was at the battle of Poictiers in September 1356 :
he was also present at Najara in April 1367, and served in most
of the expeditions and engagements of his time. In the 8th
Ric. II. he was Sheriff of Devonshire.*
Sir James Chudlegh had four wives: first, Joan sister and
heiress of Sir John de la Pomeray, by whom he had a daughter
Joan who married three husbands ; namely, Sir John St. Aubyn,
Sir Philip Bryan,^ and Sir Thomas Pomeray. His second wife
was Joan sister and heiress of William Beaumont of Shirwell in
Devonshire, but by her he had no issue. He married thirdly
Joan daughter and coheiress of Sir Richard Merton and widow
of John Bamfield, by whom he had no children. Sir James Chud-
legh married fourthly Joan daughter of Alexander Champernon
of Beer Ferrers in the county of Devon, by whom he had his
son and heir James Chudlegh, the ancestor of the baronets of that
familyJ
* Pole's Collections for Devon. ' Worthies of Deron, Ed. 1810, p. 216.
^ Baronetage. * Collections for Devon, page 255.
* Pole's Collections for Devon, page 95. • See page 252.
^ Pole's Collections for Devon» page 255.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
245
Sir James Chudlegh tfeposed, that at the battle of Poictiers SinJ.i
he saw Sir William Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, with a label
for difference, and others of his lineage with the same arms with
differences, in journeys and expeditions in Franee, Gascony, Pi-
cardy, and Normandy ; thai he saw Sir Richard Serope so armed at
the battle of Spain in company with my Lord of Lancaster ; and he
had heard from nobles and valiant persons, that the said arms de-
scended to Scrope by right line of inheritance. As to Sir Robert
Grosvenor or his ancestors, he never heard of them before the last
expedition in Scotland with the King.
Chudlegh's arms were. Ermine, three lions rampant Gides.
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN BY SIR STEPHEN DE DERBY IN THE
REFECTORY OF THE ABBEY OF ABB0T3BURY IN THE
COUNTY OF DORSET, ON THE 16"- JULY, 10 RIC. II. 1386.
SIR GUY BRYAN, K.G. This eminent person was the Si« Gui
eldest son of Sir Guy Bryan of Tor Bryan, the representative of an
ancient family in the county of Devon.' He succeeded his father
in June 1340; and it was found by the inquisition taken on his
decease that he was then thirty years of age and upwards,' which
would fix the date of his birth to about the year 1319; but it is
certain that he was bom long before that time; and though it is
stated in his deposition in 1386 that he was then of the age of sixty
and upwards, he was in fact much nearer eighty. This is evident
from two circumstances: he said that he was first armed at Stan-
now Park soon after the Coronation of Edward the Third, namely,
about April 1327; so that, allowing him to have been then only
sixteen, his birth would have occurred in 1311. He was however
at that time very nearly, if not quite, of full age; for before the
29th July 1330 the King in person settled a dispute which had for
some time existed between the Deponent and his father. Sir Guy
' Most pedigrees iiate that the Deponem's mother was Joan daughter of Sir
John Carew of Carew Caslle in Pembrokeshire ; bul, from Lady Carew having
bought the Deponeni'a marriage, it is most probable thai it was he, instead of his
fkUier, who married Joan Carew, The baptismal riame of his tnoiher, or molher-
in-law, was Welthiant.
' Ewh. 23 Edw. III. Second Numbers, n" BO.
246 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Guy Bryan, senior, relative to the Barony and Castle of Walwayn in
Pembrokeshire. From the record of the proceedings on the occa-
sion, it appears that Sir Guy the father was then insane, that his
wife Welthiane was a party to the agreement, that Guy the son was
one of the King'^s valets and of full age, that he had two sisters
then unmarried, and that Dame Joan Carew was bound in two
hundred pounds to Sir Guy the elder, for the marriage of his
said son ; and it was determined that the latter should have pos-
session of the Barony and Castle of Walwayn, to hold to him and
his heirs in tail, upon condition that he should marry his two
sisters out of the profits of those lands.^
In 1335, by the designation of '* our valet,*" the King granted
to Guy Bryan the custody of the Castle of St. Briavel and of the
forest of Dean :^ in 1341 the same offices were regranted to him for
life, he paying a rent of one hundred and twenty pounds yearly.'
On the 8th October 1337 he was appointed a Commissioner of
Array within the said forest ;^ and in October 1339 he served in the
expedition into Flanders, being, he himself says, with the army at
Burenfos and Oumey St. Benoyt on that occasion.
Bryan was still one of the King's valets in 1341,* and by
the appellation of " Guy de Bryan, junior,'' he is recorded to
have pawned jewels in 1346 to William de EUerton for the sum
of 1584/. 05. 6dfi He was probably knighted before May 1347,
when, with various other persons, most of whom were peers, he
was commanded to hasten to the King, who was then in France,
and expecting to be attacked by the French army. On the resig-
nation of the Great Seal by John de Ofibrd, the Chancellor, on the
28th October 1349, it was sent to the King at Sandwich, who en-
trusted it ad interim to Bryan,^ which strongly marks the confi-
dence his sovereign placed in him. It was, however, but a short
time in his possession, as it was re-delivered on the 13th Novem-
ber following.® In the same year he was a party, on behalf of the
* Esch. 5 Edw. III. Second Numbers, n® 163. • Rot Orig. vol. ii. p. 97.
' Rot. Orig. ii. p. 146. In 1349, the King remitted forty pounds of the fee-
farm aboveroentioned, in consideration of the pestilence, by reason of which Guy de
Bryan was unable to pay the full amount ; and the rent was in future to be reduced
to eighty pounds yearly. Rot. Orig. ii. 203. * Rot. Scoc. vol. i. p. 509.
* Rot. Pat. 15 Edw. III. p. 1. m. 3. « Rot. Claus. 19 Edw. III.
' Foedera, iii. p*i. p. 11. • Foedera, iii. p* i. p. 44.
n
sm RICHARD SCROPE.
247
King, to indeatures whereby some Scotch prisoners bound them- Sm
selves to pay, within a fixed time, a certain sum for their ransom,
or to return into custody-'
In December 1349 Edward the Third formed the romantit
resolution of placing himself and the Prince of Wales, with a
retinue of a few gallant knights, under the banner of Sir Walter
Manny, to defeat an attempt which was about to be made by the
French to surprise Calais, Sir Guy Bryan was one of those
selected, when he bore the King's banner; and so highly did he
distinguish himself by his valour and conduct on the occasion, that
he was rewarded by a grant of two hundred marks yearly out of
the Exchequer on the Ist of April 1350." On the 25ih November
in that year he was summoned to parliament as a Baron of the
realm, and from that time he was continually employed either in
the field, or in siluations requiring superior talents and judgment.
In February 1353 he was a Commissioner to treat with Louis
Count of Flanders for the preservation uf the truce ;^ and in the
same month, and again in November following, by the style of
" Dominus de Lagheme," he was an Ambassador to negociate a
peace with France.* He was a party to the letter of the Peers,
dated 28th August 1354, by which powers were given on their
behalf to certain persons to settle all disputes with the King of
France before the Pontiff, who in his private capacity was con-
stituted by Edward tlie Third arbitrator between him and the
French monarch. ° On the same day Lord Bryan was appointed
oneof the Ambassadors to treat with those of the King of France on
the occasion.* In 1354 and 1363 Bryan was a trier of petitions in
Parliament, a duty which he also performed in 1366, 1368, 1369,
1371, 1372, 1373, 1376, 1377, and in each year from 1380 to
1386.^ He is said to have been in the expedition in France in
1355,^ when, if Dugdale be correct, he was made a Banneret,
licence being given him to purchase lands of the value of 200/.
per annum to himself and his heirs for the better support of the
dignity, but the probability is that he attained that rank some
time before." On the 24th November 1355 he was commanded
■ Rol. Scoc. i. 738, 729. T31. ' Fsdera, iil. p> i. p. 53.
■ Carte's Gascon Rolls, Li. 54. ' Fadeia, ill. p' i. p. 82. 91, 100.
< Ftidera, iii. p' i. p. 101, 102. ' Ibid. p. 100. ' Rot. Pari, puaim.
• Dugdale, ii. 151, who cites Kol. Pal. 29 Edvr. III. p. a. m. 2.
n
248 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Guy to array forty men-at-armsy and to hold himself and them in
readiness to proceed against the Scotch, who had taken Berwick.*
He appears to have served in the army in Scotland in the ensuing
year, when Berwick was retaken ; and in May 1357, by the style
of " Dominus de Chastel Gawayn, one of the King^s counsellors,'^
he was a party to the truce concluded with the Scotch.*
Lord Bryan was in the army before Paris in the spring of
1360, and after the treaty of Chartres was one of the four Barons
who were sent to Paris to swear to its observance in Edward's
name.^ On the King's return to England, the custody of Calais
was entrusted to Bryan and his four colleagues, who continued
there for about four months ;* and in October in that year he was
one of the Peers, at Calais, who swore to the observance of the
peace with France.* He was again Ambassador to the Pontiff in
1361, when the King engaged to indemnify him for any loss he
might incur on the journey.^ Bryan was constituted Admiral of
the King's fleet against the French in 1369 :'^ he also served in the
army under the Duke of Lancaster in that year, when they ravaged
the Pais de Caux in Normandy ;® and on the 6th February 1370
he was appointed Admiral of the fleet towards the West.^
The highest honours of chivalry were conferred on Lord Bryan
on St. George's Day 1370, he having been elected into the Order
of the Garter as successor of the renowned Sir John Chandos,*® one
of the founders, in the eleventh stall on the Prince's side, and was
the second person who filled it. At the meeting of the Parliament
at Westminster in November 1372, he opened the session with a
speech, explaining the cause of its being assembled." In October
1374, the office of Constable being then in the Crown, Lord Bryan
and Sir Richard Stafford were appointed Commissioners to decide
the merits of a petition presented by Thomas More relative to
» Rot. Scoc. vol. i. p. 784. * Rot. Scoc. i. 803.
* Froissart par Buchon, iy. 73, where their reception at Paris, and the cere-
monies on the occasion, are fully described.
* Froissart par Buchon, iv. 80. * Froissart, iv. p. 89 ; v. 9.
* Dugdale, ii. 151. Rot. Pat. 35 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 24.
^ Dugdale, ii. 151. Rot. Claus. 43 Edw. III. m. 1. " Bryan's Deposition.
^ Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 101.
^^Chandos was slain early in January 1370, and Bryan was probably elected
on St. George's Day following. " Rot. Pari. ii. 310 a.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 249
a prisoner unjustly detained by Sir Ralph Basset;' and on the a
29th July 1375 he was nominated a Commissioner to punish
offenders against the truce with Scotland.^ In May 1376
Bryan was a Commissioner of Array in the county of Somerset:'
in the same year he was examined in Parliament as to the state
of the walls of Carlisle,* and was a Commissioner to settle some
grievances of the inhabitants of Teviotdale.^
Lord Bryan was the executor of Thomas Earl of Warwick
in 1369; of Sir Walter Manny, K. G. in 1371; of Humphrey
Earl of Hereford in 1373; and of Richard Earl of Arundel in
1375; facts which satisfactorily show that he enjoyed a high re-
putation for integrity.*
Though nearly seventy years of age at the accession of Richard
the Second, Lord Bryan still continue*! to be employed in the
public service. He served against the French in the 1st and 2nd
Ric. II.,' and was examined in Parliament in 1378, relative to a
grant of lands to John de Cobham." In the same year he was a
Commissioner of Array for the defence of the coast of Devon ;'
and on the 20th October 1379, was a Commissioner to decide
between the proctors of the King of France, and John Arundel,
Marshal of England, and others, who claimed a right in Oliver
Caukyn, a prisoner of war.'" He was a Commissioner to treat
for a league with Brittany in the 3rd Bic. 11.," and was in the
expedition in Ireland in the same year.'- In 1381 he was on the
committee to inquire into the state of the royal household ;" and
about the same time was again appointed Admiral of the King's
fleet towards the West."
On the 3rd September 1386 Bryan was a Commissioner of
Array for the defence of the coasts of Somerset and Dorset ;'^ and
according to Froissart was one of the personages who the Com-
' Kol. Pat. 48 Edw. III. m. 20 d.
» Hot, Scoc. i. 971. ' Carle's Gascon Kolls, ii.
< Itol. Pari. ii. 345 b. ' Rot. Pari. ii. 353 b.
* Testamenta Velusla. ' Dugdale's Baronage, Ii. 151.
" Ilut. Pail. kii. p. 86. ' Fat. 2 Ric. II. p. 2. tn. 30 i
" Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 130.
" Dugdaie's Baronage, ii. 151. Rol. Franc. 3 Ric. II. m. 15.
" Dugdale. ii. 151. " Rol. Pari. iii. 101 a.
" Hot Pat. 5 Ric. II. p. a. m. 3. " Carte's Gascon RoUi, ii.
VOL. II. 2 K
1
250 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
^ ^''^,- ^ mons desired might be at Westminster in April 1387« to settk the
BmxAit, K.G. , ^, . , *
dispute between the King and his subjects.^
Lcnrd Bryan died on Wednesday the 17th of August, 14th
Ric II. 1390,* aged about. ninety, and was buried under a magni-
ficent monument in Tewksbury Abbey.' Some discrepancy exists
with respect to his wives and issue, but the fdlowing statement,
which has been written after an investigation <^ various reccHtls,
is probably near the truth. He was twice married :^ first, it is said,
to Ann, or Alice, daughter and heiress of William Hcdway of Hoi-
way in Devonshire,^ but for the reason before given,^ mme pro-
bably to a daughter of Sir John Carew, by whom, who died before
1350, he had a daughter Elizabeth,^ who was naturalized by stat.
25th Eklw. III. 1351, she having beenlxNm beyond the sea. His
second wife was EUizabeth daughter of William de Hontacute Eari
of Salisbury, by Kathmne daughter, and eventually coheiress, of
William Lord Grandison. She married, first, Giles Lcnrd Badks-
mere, who died in 1338; and secondly Hugh Lord Despenser,
who died on the 8th Feluiiary 1349 ; hence she could not have
been the wife of Lord Bryan brfore 1350.« Elizabeth Lady
Bryan died on the 31st Hay 1359»' and by Bryan she bad four
diildren : Guy, William, Philip, and Margaret.^*
■ Fioissvt, par Bnchoo, xL 14. > Each. 14 Rkh. n*" a.
* An engTaring oi his moDameot ocean in Stodmd's Moonaieiiial Effigies.
* The anns ol* bis second wife, Elizabeth Mootacate, impaled witb bis own, are
die only annorial bearings on bis monnmenu His crest is much defared, bat it
seems to bate been a Griffon's bead.
* Pole's CoUectioos for l>eTonsbiiey page 274, and otber antborities. Gk>ver,
bofwerer, calls ber bis sectmd wife. * See note 1, page 345.
^ Some pedigrees state that be bad also by bis first wife a danghier Anne, die
wife ol* Sir John Carej of Uolwmj in DeTonshire, one of the Barons of the Ex-
chequer, from whom the Carers of Cockerington are said to ba^e descended ; bat
this is rendered extremely improbable bj not finding any notice of sach an alliance
in the agreement relative to the Bryan property in the 4th Hen. VIL See page 264.
A pedigree by Glover makes Carey to have married Margaret the widow of Sir
John Eriegb.
' In 1354 a Walter de Briene and another person gare twenty shilHngs for
lioenoe to grant to Gay de Bryan ChiTaler, and Ebiabetb hb wife, the manor
ofRotbetfekl,diebamlctof Eferagj^in Sassex, and other lands, for the life of the
said Elizabeth. Rot. Grig. 28 Edw. HI. u. 234. ' Esch. 33 Edw. III. n* 42.
■•Esch.49Edw. IlL p. l.n* 62. Seethe abstract of this Escheat in page 252.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
251
Sir William Bryan, the second son, differenced his arms with ^"
a canton of the coat of Grandison,' and succeeded under a special
entail mode by his mother's relation Sir Thomas Grandison to the
manor of Ashe Faukham in Kent in 1375-^ He also possessed the
manor of Douhelsl in 1387,' and was Captain of the Castle of
Merk in the Marches of Calais, in the 8th Ric. II.» Sir William
Bryan married a daughter of John Lord Maltravers,* but died
without issue' on the 23rd September 1395, and was buried at
Scale in Kent. His arms with an impalement of Fitzolan quarter-
ing Maltravers, and his effigy on brass, with his crest, a bugle horn,
formerly occurred in that church, together with the following
inscription: — " Hie jacel Dns Willelmus de Bryene miles, quon-
dam dominus de Kemsyng et de Sele, qui obijt xxiij die mensis
Septemhris anno domini m" ccclxxxxv". Cujus anime propicietur
I>eu8. Amen."
1
It appeon by the Inquisition on the death of Guy Lord Bryan, in the l*lli
Ric. 11., thai he had gmnled the manor of Tor Bryan in Devonshire for life to
Philippa ihe wife of Sir John Chandos, which Phihppa was living in 1390 ;
and in a pedigree by Glover she is called the daiigkirr of Lord Bryan, aiid graud-
tnother of EliiabelJi Chandos llie wife of John Berkeley, ancestor of the
Barons and Dukes of Chandos ; but il is more probable that she was Ihe liitrr of
Lord Bryan.
' From AbstrocU of Deeds, Ice. in a MS. in the possession of Sir Thonia«
Phillips, Bart. Much importance appears to have been attached by the Montagu
tamily to iheir descent from the house of Grandison. On the seal of Sybillathe sister
of Elizabeth Lady Bryan, and widow of Sir Edmond Arundel, were two loienges
between a shield of the arms of Arundel with a bibel, ihe one charged with the coat
of Montagu, and die other with that of Grandison. Deed marked 83 E. 36, in
the British Museum, being a receipt, dated 12th December, 24 F.dw. III. 1350, of
the said SybiUa, for articles delivered to her on ttie death of her mother Katherine
Countess of Salisbury, among which was some plate marked with ai
Ihe arms of Montagu and Grandison.
' Esch. 49 Edw. III. p. 1. n" 63.
without issue, the manor wa.s entailed
' Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 152.
Will of Agnes de Arundel
mentions her sisters (in I
Two escocheon» of ihe arr
church, ihtf bend m the oni
Id the event of Sir William Bryan dying
n his brother Philip Bryan.
three eagles.
of Sir William Bryan, Harleian MS. 3917, and the
in 1401, widow of Sit William Arundel, wherein she
iw) Roo5 and Bryan. Teatamenta \'etu3ta, p. 156.
s ofGi'andiaun occurred in the north uindow of Seale
being charged wiih three buckles, and in the other with
* Esch. 21 Hie. n.n"-».
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252 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Guy gij. Philip Bryan, the third son, obtained a grant of the manor
' ' * of Thokerwyke from his father, in the 4th Ric. II. 1380, with
remainder to his brother William, to which grant Sir William
Bonvile, Sir Robert Fitz Payne, Sir John Chydioke knights,
and John Erie, were witnesses. He married Joan widow of Sir
John St. Aubyn, and daughter of Sir James Chudlegh of Ash ton
in Devonshire, by Joan sister and heiress of Sir John Pomeray ;*
but by her, who married thirdly Sir Thomas Pomeray,^ he had
no issue, and died on the 16th January 1387.^
Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Guy Lord Bryan was the wife
of Sir Robert Fitz Payne in 135V and by him, who died in 1392,
left issue Isabel their daughter and sole heiress, who was upwards
of thirty years of age at her father'^s decease, and then the wife of
Richard Lord Poynings.
Margaret, the second daughter, was- the wife of Sir John
Erlegh, by whom she had a son. Sir John Erlegh, whose daughter
and heiress, Margaret, married Sir John St. Maur, and had a son,
John St. M^ur, born in 1408.*
Sir Guy Bryan, the eldest son of Lord Bryan, was born about
1354.* He inherited the manor of Oxenhalle in Gloucestershire
under an entail made by Peter de Grandison,* and died vita patris,
in February 1386. His Will, wherein he called himself **Guy de
Bryan the son,^^ was dated 8th April 1384, and was proved at
» Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p. 61. Esch. 12 Ric. II. n» 77. Rot.
Glaus. 10 Ric. II. m. 44.
« Esch. 10 Ric. II. no 7.
3 Seepage 259. She must have been born as early as 1346, and probably
about 1342, as Isabella her daughter was upwards of thirty years of age in 1392,
and her grandson was born in 1 376.
* Esch. 3 Hen. V. n» 36.
^ Inquisition held at Gloucester on the death of Sir Thomas Grandison in the
49 Edw. III. " Juratores dicunt quod Petrus de Graunson, avunculus Thome
de Graunson Chivaler defuncti, fuit seisitus de manerio de Oxenhall in Com.
Glouc*, et predictum manerium dedit prefato Thome et heredibus de corpore
suo legitime procreatis. Et si predictus Thomas obierit sine herede de corpore
suo legitime procreato, predictum manerium Elizabethe la Despenser et heredibus
suis imperpetuum remaneret. Et dicunt quod predictum manerium, post mortem
p)*edictorum Thome et Elizabethe, pro eo quod predictus Thomas obiit sine herede
de corpore suo legitime procreato, Guidoni filio Guidonis de Bryene Chivaler, filio
et heredi ipsius Elizabethe, remanere debet per formam donationis predicte, et quod
predictus Guido filius Guidonis est etatis viginti et duorum annonim et amplius.
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SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 253
Salisbury on the 30th March 1386. He desired to be buried at S'"
Slapton in Devonshire, and bequeathed his property to Alice his
wife; but as it was of little value, he emphatically entreated his
lord and father to contribute to the payment of his debls and the
maintenance of his children. He appointed his said wife his prin-
cipal executor, and prayed his " dear brother Robert Fitz Payne'"
to assist her in the fulfilment of his Will.' Sir Guy married Alice
daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Bures of Bures in Suffolk,
and by her had two daughters his coheirs, Philippa, bom in 1378,
and Klizabeth, bom in 1381, who were found to be coheirs of their
grandfather in 1390, the one being then twelve and the other nine
years of age. Philippa married, first, Sir John Devereux, and
secondly, about July 1398, Henry third Lord Serope of Masham,
K.G., but died without issue on the 19th November 140fi'' Eliza-
beth, Ihe second daughter, was the wife of Sir Robert Lovell, by
whom she had Maud her daughter and heiress, who married, first,
John Earl of Arundel, and by him had Humphry £arl of Arundel,
who died without issue. She married secondly Sir Richard Stafford,
and by him was mother of Avicc Stafford their daughter and heiress,
who married James Butler Earl of Ormond, but died without issue
in 1456, when the descendants of Sir Guy de Bryan the younger
became extinct; and the Barony vested in Henry Percy fourth Ear!
of Northumberland, and Sir Thomas St. Maur Knight ; namely, in
the Earl of Northumberland, as son and heir of Henry third
Earl of Northumberland, by Eleanor daughter and heiress of Sir
Richard Poynings, son and heir of Robert Lord Poynings, eldest
son of Richard Lord Poynings by Isabel daughter and heiress
of Sir Robert Fitz Payne by Elizabeth eldest daughter and co-
heiress of Guy Lord Bryan ; and in Sir Thomas St. Maur, as son
and heir of Sir John St. Maur, eldest sou of Sir John St, Maur by
Margaret daughter of Sir John Erlegh, son and heir of Sir John
Erlegh by Margaret the second daughter of the said Lord Bryan.
On the 16th December 4th Hen. VIL 1488, a deed of partition^
' A copy, wild probale annexed, is preserved in ihe colleclion of Sir Tliomai
Pliillipps, Bart, purchased at ibe sals of Mr, Craven Ord. ' See page 140 autea.
' The original, delivered lo ilie Earl of Northnmberland under the seils of the
Earl of Ormond, Sir Edward Poyningi, and Sir Thomas St- Maur, is in the posses-
sion of John Uage, Esq. Direct. S.A. and F.R.S., who has bestoned much labour
on the Bryan Pedigree, and obligingly communicated his colleclions on Ihe subject.
264 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Guy was made of the estates of Sir Guy Bryan, K.G. between Henry
Bryan, K.G. g^j ^f Northumberland, Thomas Earl of Ormond, Sir Edward
Poynings, and Sir Thomas St. Maur, for the settlement of'* diverse
variaunces and contraversies^ which had existed between them on
the subject. It appears that the Earl of Northumberland claimed
as ** heir general and inheritable to the said Sir Guy C^ that
Poynings claimed under certain entails " to Robert son of Robert
*^ Lord Poynings, and to the heirs of his body coming, whose son
" and heir he the said Edward was -J* that Sir Thomas St. Maur
claimed partly as " heir general to the said Sir Guy, ^ partly under
the Will of Elizabeth Lovell, cousin and heir to Sir Guy, and partly
by virtue of " diverse recoveries by his ancestor Sir John Erlegh,
" whose heir he was.*' The Earl of Ormond claimed as " brother
^^ and heir to James late Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire,^* by reason
" of diverse fines to the use of the said Earl of Wilts by Alice his
" wife, then right heir to the said Sir Guy Bryan.^ It was
finally agreed that the Earl of Northumberland *^ was and ought
** to be taken and reputed as heir general to the said Sir Guy
^* Bryan ;^ but nevertheless it was determined that certain lands
should be assigned to each of the parties. The acknowledgment
that Northumberland was " heir general^ of Sir Guy Bryan must
be understood to mean that he was one of his heirs general ; and
the passage was probably introduced in consequence of a doubt
having arisen on that subject from his being only of the half-blood
to Avice Countess of Ormond and Wiltshire, the person last seised
of the greater part of the estates in dispute.^ As the Barony of
Bryan is vested in the descendants of Guy Lord Bryan, the point
has been thought deserving of the attention given to it, and the
conclusion seems to be that the dignity is now in abeyance between
the representatives of the said Elizabeth Fitz Payne and Margaret
Erlegh, daughters of Guy Lord Bryan.
Sir Guy Bryan, of the age of sixty years and upwards, first
armed at Stannow Park, soon after the coronation of the late
King, deposed that he had seen Sir Geoffrey Scrope, uncle of
* Sir William Pole, in his Collections for Devonshire, p. 275, expressly says
that there was some dispute between the Earl of Northumberland and St. Maur in
consequence of the half-blood. His statement that Fitz Payne married Elizabeth
the daughter of Sir Guy Bryan the younger, and widow of Sir Robert Lovell, is
proved by the dates to be impossible.
n
SIR RICHARD 8CR0PE. 255
Sir Richard Scrope, armed Azure, a bend Or, with a label Argent, Si
and with his banner at Burenfos in Yermandois, and at Ourney
St. Benoyt in the same country ; and that he had since seen Sir
Henry Scrope, his son, armed in the same arms, and his banner
also i and he had subsequently seen the said Sir Richard so armed in
the expedition of my Lord of Lancaster in Caux, and others of his
lineage bearing the same arms with differences. As to Sir Robert
Grosvenor, he had neither heard nor known any thing of him or
of his ancestors until the time that the pleadings commenced before
the Constable and Marshal.
The arms of Guy Ijord Bryan were. Or, three piles Azure.'
SIR JOHN CHYDIOKE was the son of Sir John Chydioke «
of Chydioke in the county of Dorset ;- and if the statement that
he was more than one hundred years of age in 1386 be correct, he
was born about 1285. It is however very doubtful if he were so
old as he is represented to have been. He says that he was first
armed at Stannow Park in April 1327; and as persons usually
served in the field before their twentieth year, it is difficult to
believe that Chydioke did not do so until he was upwards of
forty. The probability therefore is, that he was about eighty
when he made his deposition. In June 1328 he was a knight, and
was appointed a Commissioner to treat with the Duke of Brabant,'
and in August following was sent on a mission to the town of
Bruges,* On the 26lli August 1356 he was nominated a Commis-
sioner of Array in the county of Dorset :" in September 1359 he
obtained letters of protection, then going abroad in the retinue of
Sir John de Monlacute ;* and it appears from his deposition that
he had served in many expeditions, and was present at various bat-
tles. In the 3rd Ric. fl. 1379-80 he received a licence to embattle
his manur-house of Chydioke and to convert it into a castle.^
' A beautiful impreuion of his «eal occurs to a deed amonE the Charters,
in the Ilarleiau ColUclion, in (lie British MuseucD.
' Uutchins' History of Dorset, i. 547, where views of the rains of Chydioke
Castle and of the monuments of the family are given. ' Fixdera, ii. p'iii. p.l8<
' Ftxdeia, ii. p'iii. p, 15. As the Deponent's fiather was living in 1328, these
notices may however relate to him instead of hi; son.
* Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 61. ' Fadera, iii. p' i. |i,1B6.
' RqI. Pat. 3 Itic. II. p. 3 m, H,
1
256 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir John Sir John Chvdioke died on the 6th May 1388.^ He married
before 1354 Isabella daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Fitz
Payne,^ and by her had a son, Sir John Chydioke, who was up-
wards of forty years of age at his father's decease:^ he married
Joan daughter of Sir John St. Laudo,^and died in the 14th Ric. II.*
His son Sir John Chydioke, who was fifteen in that year,* died in
1415,* and by Eleanor daughter and heiress of Sir Ivo Fitz Wa-
rine,^ left a son. Sir John Chydioke, then fourteen, who died in
the 28th Hen. VI. ^ leaving by Katherine daughter of Ralph Lord
Lumley® two daughters his coheirs, Katherine and Margaret.
Katherine was the wife of William Stafford, Esquire, in 1440,'^
but at her mother's decease in 1461^ she was then the wife of John
Arundel, Esquire, and the present Lord Arundel of Wardour is
her representative. Margaret married William Lord Stourton,
and is now represented by Lord Stourton.
Sir John Chydioke, of the age of one hundred and upwards,
armed first at Stannow Park soon after the coronation of Edward
the Third, deposed that he had seen and known Sir Geoffrey
Scrope and Sir Henry Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, with a
white label, and many others of their lineage so armed with differ-
ences, in battles and journeys, as well on banners and pennons as
on coat armours, and never heard to the contrary. He had heard
in his time from many noble and valiant persons that the said
arms had descended to Sir Richard Scrope from a right line of
» Esch. 12 Ric. II. n® 10.
• Esch. 28 Edw. III. n*»41. In the 17th Edw. III. Sir Robert Fitz Payne, her
father, settled the greater part of his lands, in default of issue male of his body by
Ela his wife, on Robert a younger son of Richard Lord Grey of Codnor, who
accordingly succeeded to them, and assumed the name of Fitz Payne. See Esch.
25 Hen. VI. n** 24. Isabella the daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Fitz Payne
was found to be upwards of thirty and the wife of Sir John Chydioke at her
father's decease in the 28th Edw. III. In 1360 Sir John Chydioke and Isabella
his wife gave ten marks for licence to enfeoff certain persons of the manor of
Estchelbergh in the county of Somerset. Rot. Grig. 34 Edw. III. ii. 260.
• Esch. 49 Edw. III. n* 34. Rot. Grig. ii. p. 337. She married secondly
John Beche, and died in the 11th Hen. IV. Esch. 11 Hen. IV. n<* 15.
• Escheats 14 Ric. II. n® 12, and 11 Hen. IV. n" 15.
« Esch. 3 Hen. V. n» 58. « JEsch. 2 Hen. V. n" 38, and 12 Hen. VI. n" 38.
' Esch. 28 Hen. VI. n°26. ' Harleian MS. 1074, f. 301, 302 b.
• Esch.l Edw. IV. n° 26.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
ancestry. He never in hih time heard apeak of, nor had ever
Sir Robert OrosveDur, nor any of his lineage, using the said arms.
Chydioke's arms were, Gules, an inescocheon and an orle of
martlets Argent,
SIR WILLIAM BONVILLE was the son of Sir Nioholas
Bonville of Shute in Devonshire,' by Joan daughter and eventu-
ally the only child that left surviving issue of Henry dc Cham-
pemon of that county." The date of his birth does not appear,
but it probably occurred about the year 1330, as he was forty
years of age and upwards in 1372, when he was found to be heir
" virtute doni" to certain lands on the death of Sybilla wife of
Robert St. Clere '
Sir William Bonville said, that in 13G9he was in the expedition
when the Duke of Lancaster laid waste the Pais de Caux in Nor-
mandy ; and he was a Commissioner of Array for defence of the
coasts of Devon in 1378-9.* He was Sheriff of Devon in 1389-1390 ;*
and having lent the King 100/. he received his Majesty's bond for
the same in August 1397.° Bonville was one of the Knights from
the county of Somerset who were commanded to attend the King's
council in August 1401,^ and on the 6th July 1405 was again no-
minated a Commissioner of Array in Devonshire.^ He was sum-
moned on the King's service in the summer of 1407 ; but it appears
from a letter written by the Duke of York to the Lords of the
Council, dated at Glastonbury on the 92nd June 1407, that he
was too ill to attend ; for the Duke observes, " Quant a monsieur
" Thonaas Broke et monsieur William Boneville j'ay cscript devers
" eux, mes le dit monsieur William est malade a son ostel q'il ne
" poet chivaucher.'"'
Sir William made his will on the 13th August following, and
died early in the ensuing year, as it was proved on the 18th April
' Pole's CoUeclioDs for Devonshire, [i. 137.
• Escb. 14 Hen. VI. n* 26 on the dealh of Sir John Herle, Knight, who was
the last descendant o( William de Champemon, brother of the said Joan Bonville,
and to whom Sir William Bonville, the Deponent's grandson, was found heir.
' Esch. 40 Edw. III. n- 61. ' Patent 2 Ric. II. m. 30 d.
' Anno 13 Ric. K. Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p.55.
• Fffdera, iii. p' iv. p. 133. ' Cotton. MS. Cleopatra F. lii. f. 10 a.
' F<edeia, iv. p' iii. p.e4. • Cotton. MS. Cleopatra F. iii. f. 56 b.
VOL. II. 2 L
258 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir William 1408.^ He married, before 1373, Margaret daughter and heireftf*
of William de Albemarle, son of William, son and heir of Geoffrey
de Albemarle,^ and by her had two sons, John, and William.^ John
Bonville, the eldest son, died in 1396/ and left issue by Elizabeth
daughter and heiress of John Fitz Roger, son of Henry Fitz Roger
of Dorsetshire,* two sons :^ William, then five years old,* who was
heir to his grandfather in the 9th Hen. IV. ; and Thomas.^ Sir
William Bonville, the eldest of these sons, became a very eminent
personage, was created a peer, and elected a knight of the Garter,
and was beheaded after the battle of St. Alban^s, in 1459) when
Cecily, his great-grand-daughter, was found to be his heir. She
married Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, and is now repre-
sented by the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos.
Sir William Bonville, the Deponent, married secondly, Alice
widow of John Rodney : she held the third part of the manor of
' Esch 9 Hen. IV. n* 11. » Esch. 47 Edw. III. n« 66, andRot.Orig. ii. 329.
* In the 3rd Hen. IV. Sir William Bonville settled certain lands on William
his second son by Margaret his first wife ; and in default of heirs male of the body
of the grantor, the said lands were to be divided between Katherine the wife of
John Wyke and Elizabeth the wife of Sir Thomas Carew ; which corroborates the
statement of Sir William Pole, p. 130, that the Deponent's daughter, Elizabeth,
married Sir Thomas Carew of Ottery Mohun. (MS. Collections for Dugdale's
Baronage, by the late Francis Townsend, Esq. Windsor Herald ) — It appears
that the Deponent had likewise a son Thomas, who left two sons : William, who
died s. P. in the 14th Hen. IV. ; and John, who was heir to his brother, and twelve
years old in that year, but died s. p. in the 4th Hen. VI. Escheats 14 Hen. IV.
n« 12, and 4 Hen. VI. n» 19. Their mother was probably Cecily daughter and
coheiress of Sir John Strechie, who was nineteen years old and the wife of Thomas
Bonville in the 14th Ric. II. (Esch. 14 Ric. II. n° 42.) She seems to have married
secondly Sir William Cheney. See page 260.
* Esch. 20 Ric. II. n® 11.
^ Esch. 5, 8, and 10 Ric. II. Elizabeth Fitz Roger was sixteen years of age
in the 8th Ric. II.
' According to some authorities, he had also a daughter, Philippa, who married
William Granville, ancestor of the Earls of Bath.
7 This Thomas Bonville married Joan eldest daughter and coheiress of Hugh
Poynings Lord St. John, and had issue John Bonville, who by Jane daughter and
heiress of John Gorges of Warlegh, lef^ Ann his daughter and heiress, who was
the wife of Philip Coplestone of Warlegh, from whom the Coplestones of that place
descended. (Pole's Collections for Devonshire, p. 306, Escheat 7 Hen. VI. and Rot.
Claus. 37 Hen. VI. m. 16 d.) A William Bonville died in the 4th Hen. VI. leaving,
by Eleanor his wife, a son John, then fourteen years old. Esch. 4 Hen. VI. n* 9.
_ 1
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 259
Stoke Oifi'ard and others in dower,* and Bonvillc bequeathed to ^i"
her his mansion house in Exeter. To William, his younger son,
he gave by his will 200 marks towards his marriage, and left
his sister Anne, who was a nun at Wherwell, ten marks. He
ordered his body to be buried before the high cross in the church
of Nywenham in Devonshire, and bequeathed 40/. to the said
church for licence that he and his wives might be interred there.
HJB executors were directed to endow a hospital for twelve poor
men and women in Combe Street in Exeter, to which purpose all
his rents in that city were to be appropriated.
Sir William Bonville deposed that he had seen and known Sir
Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, in the expedition under
the Duke of Lancaster in Caux, and Sir Henry Scrope armed in
the same arms with a white label, and with his banner, before
Boulogne. As to Sir Robert Grosvenor, or his ancestors, he
never heard of them before these pleadings commenced.
His arms were. Sable, six mullets, three, two, and one Argent,
pierced Gules.
SIR ROBERT FITZ PAYNE. This individual was a Sm
younger son of Richard Loro Ghey of Codnor, and, accordinjf to
his deposition, was bom about the year 1321. Having in 1354
succeeded to the manor of Cherleton Grey in Somersetshire, with
other lands in that county and in Dorsetshire, by virtue of a spe-
cial entail made by Robert Lord Filz Payne and Ela his wife, he
assumed the name and arms of Fit/. Payne,'^ and is, erroneously,
said by Dugdale to have been summoned to Parliament in the
43rd Edw. 111.
Sir Robert Fitz Payne married before 1354 Elizabeth eldest
daughter of Guy Ix)rd Bryan, K.G.' and dying in 1392 or 1393,*
Isabel his daughter was found to be his heir, then thirty years
of age, and the wife of Richard fourth Lord Poynings.* Their
son, Robert Lord Poynings, died in 1446, leaving Kleanor daughter
■" ' Esch 9 Hen. IV. notl.
' ' Escheats 38 Edw. III. n" 41 ; and 35 Hen. VI. n" 24. Thissettlemenl of the
** lands of Kobert LoH Yiu Payne in default ofliif own issue imde, on a stranger in
^ blocrti, is not a little extraordinary, for he had a daughter, Isabel, wbo was his heir.
^^ She married Sir John Chydinke, and left descendants. See page S56.
^B ' See pages 352, 353, anlea. • Esch. 16 Ric. II. n" 13.
^k 2l2
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>n-tii^>^ ( fatu*^ ;.'V ptrwiA : ru^an^ ik^ £:!•« have been tKm bdbrit
tU #iM^ iA lim ^^ IfOK' aad br Jon daajrb» aad cc^
mi4 kfiif. w):tf, wt^ ttr^rrt^Hrx r^ar^ of a^e at hz^ father'^ deccKe,-
a«i#f #fi^ m li^flTV i^a^in^^ bv CedW djui^ttr mad hein^ of Sir
J//I)r«i ^^-^i^ri^-^' a ^r/n- •►if KAmmtd. then eighteen,* wi» died he-
0#r^ 14^ ; f/^, r^i fh^ death of hi* mother m that Tear.* h» three
daii^fitiir* w<fr#r fr/fjnd t^j lje aJheir^ of their grandixfeochef'. oameiv,
Kli/al^ii, a^*^l %#rr#fn: Anne, aged fire; and Cecil j, aged two.-
Ann^ C;ji#nr**ry, tfi#r ^fhClmd daughter, married Sir John Wiilough-
bjr, an/i i« rt^fffMitiieil bj her descendant the present Lord Wil-
Hjr Kalph i'Mtztn-y Ai^nm^A^ that he had seen the said Sir
Kii^hard H<Tr/jjir armtf-rl cm hi» Ixidy Azure, a bend Or, at the chi-
fMm:h/:e which th#r laU* King made last in France, the said Sir
' Vin^^it'» MS. w 10, i, f/i, '*ttd I'hiliprrt's Stemmata \aria, f. 4, in the College
f4 Afuin, » Each. 2 Hen. IV. n" 52.
* KM;h. 2 H#rfi, V f , n' 14. * E»ch. 8 Hen. V. n*" 46.
* Vm'M. *j \\r.u» W. fi^ 42. Slie ap{>ears to have been the widow of Thomas
\\«my\\\*i. fke page 258, note 3. • Esch. 9 Hen. V'l. u** 42.
SIR RICUARU SCROPE.
261
Richard being then with the Earl of Richmond in that expe-
dition ; and Sir Henry Scrope armed in the same arms with a
white label at Balyngham Hill, whose banner was constantly and
publicly displayed during the whole expedition. He added, that
there were many gentlemen in that expedition from the counties
of Chester and Lancaster, and thai no one from either of these
counties said any thing to him [challenged his right to the arms.]
As to Sir Hoberl Grosvenor, the said Sir Ralph had no knowledge
of him, excepting once, when he saw him at Chester; but of his
arms or of his ancestors he knew nothing.
The arms of Sir Ralph Cheney were, Gules, four fusils in fess
Argent, each charged with an escallop Sable, within a bordure of
the second.'
SIR WILLIAM DE LUCY. There is some difficulty SrR
about the ])edigree of this Knight, whose long career in arms enti- "
tle.s him to attention ; he having, he says, served at the battles of
Scluse, Cressy, and Poictiers, and in numerous military expe-
ditions, as well in Prussia as in France.
It appears that he was related to, if he was not the son of, the
John de Lucy who, jointly with Alice widow of Hugh de Henton,
held one fourth part of a fee in Hampreston in the county of
Dorset in the 20th Kdw. III. 1346, which John de flovis and
Alice de Lucy had formerly possessed; for, in lhe3rdRic, II. 1379,
1380, Sir William de Lucy, Knight, who no doubt was the Depo-
nent, granted the manor of Hampreston to Roger Holme." From
his being examined at Abbotsbury it is evident that he resided in
Dorsetshire, but no other information of a family of Lucy in that
county has been discovered.
Sir William de Lucy, of the age of sixty, deposed that he had
seen the arms of Scrope, and of persons of that name borne with
differen6es, at the battle of Scluse, and since in all the royal
battles in which the Deponent had been armed, viz. at the
battle of Scluse, the siege of Tournay, the battle of Cressy, the
chivauchee of Blaunge, the battle of Poictiers, in the expedition
which the late King last made before Paris in France, and in
' Roll of Arms in the posseaaioii orihe Kcv, Juliu Newling, Canon uf l.ichlielJ.
■ Hulcbioa' History of Dorset, in. SO.
262 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Prussia, and beyond the Great Sea. As to Sir Robert Grosvenor,
he never in any expedition, battle, or journey in his time heard
of him or of his ancestors, until the controversy commenced
lietween him and Sir Richard Scrope.
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN BEFORE SIR NICHOLAS DE
HARYNGTON, KNIGHT, IN THE CHURCH OF SAINT
JOHN, WITHOUT THE WALLS OF WEST CHESTER, ON
THE 4«> SEPTEMBER 10 RIG. II. 1386.
Sib John SIR JOHN MASSY OP Taiton. No less than nine indi-
viduals of the name of Massy were examined in the controversy on
behalf of Sir Robert Grosvenor, of whom this Knight and Sir
John Massy of Podington in Cheshire were also examined on the
part of Scrope. The depositions of many of them, including that
which this witness made in favour of Grosvenor, have however been
lost. Their relationship to that family, and their connection with
the county of Chester, explain the bias which their evidence
betrays towards the Defendant.
Sir John Massy was the second son of Hugh Massy of Tat-
ton; and as his elder brother Richard died vit& patris in Sep-
tember 1370, he succeeded as heir to his father about 1371,^
when he must have been nearly thirty years of age.* It appears
from his deposition that he had long served in the field ; but the
only expeditions in which he said he was present, were those in
Scotland in 1383 and 1385. The most remarkable circumstance
respecting him is, that, a few years before he was a witness in the
Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, he had a similar contest with
his relation Sir John Massy of Podington. The dispute was
argued before the Earl Marshal and the Constable, and referred
to the arbitration of Sir Hugh Calveley, Sir John Burley, Sir
John Devereux, Sir Brian Stapleton, Knights, and Ralph de Sta-
thum. Esquire, who decided it by a deed dated at Gloucester 14th
November 2 Ric. II. 1378, in which it was recited that a plea had
* Ormerod's History of Cheshire, vol. i. p. 345.
* Though it is stated in his deposition in p. 79, that he was fifty y yet when
examined by Grosvenor he is said to have been onXy forty-three. See vol. i.
p. 360.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 263
been prosecuted before the Constable and Marshal between " mon- S
" sieurjohn de Mascy deTatton, poursuant," and " monsieur John
" de Mascy de Podington, defendant," for the arms " quarteles
*' dor et de goules ove un lion passant d'argent en la premier
" quarter de goules,"' and that they had been appointed arbitra-
tor§ of the claim. They therefore awarded to John Massy of
Podington the arms which Thomas de Massy his grandfather had
borne, viz. " d'or et de gules quartelcs, ove trois fleures de lys
" d'argent en les quarters de goules ;" and to John Massy of
Tatton the same arms with three escallops Argent in lieu of the
fleurs de lys ; upon condition that neither party should bear the
arms in dispute.'
Sir John Massy was Sheriff of Cheshire in the llth and 13th
Ric. II., and having espoused the party of Richard against Henry
the Fourth, is presumed to have been slain at the battle of Shrews-
bury. He died on the 22nd July 1403; and both he and his eldest
son Thomas Massy were attainted of high treason in the let
Hen. IV.' In that year Robert de Workesley of the county of
Lancaster stated in a petition to Parliament, that one Nicholas
de Workesley, at the instigation of Sir John Massy of Tatton,
Thomas his son, Geoffrey and Richard his brothers, had conspired
against the petitioner in relation to the manor of Workesley in
the year 1307, and caused him to bo brought to London and im-
prisoned in the Tower, to the great danger of his life, and loss of his
money. He therefore prayed remedy against the said Nicholas de
Workesley and the Massys, and was answered that the parties
should be summoned before the King's Council on a certain day,
and that right should be done.*
By Alice sister and heiress of Sir Geoffrey Worseley of Worse-
ley in Lancashire, whom he married about the year 1372, and who
died in October 1427, Sir John Mossy had six sons: Thomas,
Geoffrey, Ricliard, Hugh, John, and Lawrence; and two daugh-
ters ; Joan, who married, first, Sir William Venables of Bollin
fee in the hundred of Maxfield, and secondly Sir Oliver Stanley i
and Margery, who was the wife of Sir John Bromley of Bad-
' These were the arms of Massy of Dunham, ihe elder brancli of iho family.
Urmerod's History ofCheshire, ii. 30S.
• Viucent'i Cheshire, in the Coilese of Arms, f. 411, and llarleian MS. 11T8,
f. 44 b, ' Onnerod's History ofCheshire, i. 345. * Hot- Pari, iii. 445.
r.
264 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir John ington in Cheshire. Thomas Massy, the eldest son, died without
issue on the 24th August 1420, and was succeeded by his brother
Sir Geoffrey, who died without legitimate issue in 1457, leaving
his nephew William Massy, son of his brother Richard, his heir.
Sir Geoffrey Massy, his son, left a daughter and heiress, Joan,
who married William Stanley, Esquire ; and their daughter and
heiress Joan Stanley conveyed Tatton to her husband Sir Richard
Brereton.^
, Sir John Massy of Tatton, of the age of fifty years, armed
thirty years and upwards, deposed that he knew nothing of the
right to the arms Azure, a bend Or, but said he had seen Sir
Richard Scrope armed in the said arms twice in Scotland, the
first time with my Lord of Lancaster, and the second time in the
last expedition of the King ; that he had heard that two of his
ancestors had borne the said arms, that Sir Richard Scrope had a
man of the law for his father, and that another man of law was
father of Sir Henry Scrope, the which were the first men of the
Scropes who had used the said arms. He had heard that it was
in the time of those two men of the law that they first used the said
arms. Massy admitted that he was Sir Robert Grosvenor's cousin.
The arms of Sir John Massy of Tatton, according to the deci-
sion in 1378, were, Quarterly Or and Gules, with three escallops
Argent in the quarters Gules; but the arms have always been borne
with the first and fourth quarters Gules, and the escallops therein.^
Sir John SIR JOHN MASSY OF PoDiNGTON. This individual, as
PoDiNGTON. wcU *s most of the other persons who were examined at Chester on
the part of Sir Richard Scrope, were afterwards examined on be-
half of Sir Robert Grosvenor ; and as their depositions on that
occasion were much more interesting than when compelled to give
evidence for Scrope, the notices of them will be inserted when
speaking of the deponents in favour of Grosvenor. Many of those
witnesses were related to the Grosvenors, and their reluctance to an-
swer the interrogatories of Sir Richard Scrope'^s proctor is shown
by the contumacious silence of William de Brereton, John de
Leycestre, and Sir John Pole, and by the brief and unsatisfactory
replies of the others.
' Ormerod's History of Cheshire.
' Heralds' Visitations of Cheshire in the College of Arms.
SIR RICHAIin SCROPE. 265
Sir John Massy of Podington, of the age of thirty, armed ten 8lIlJou^
years, deposed that he knew nothing about the right to the arms FooiNDtoH.
Azure, a bend Or; but he had seen Sir Richard Scrope armed 2-0
ill them in Scotland in the last expedition of the King, though he
had little knowledge of the title, or by what ancestry he possessed
the said arms. He had no knowledge of the ancestry of Sir Ri-
chard, or how long they had borne their arms. He admitted he
was related to Sir Robert Grosvenor.
ROBERT DANYELL, EsquiRE. He was likewise examined R"»
on behalf of Sir Robert Grosvenor.
Robert Oanyell, Ksquire, of the age of forty-five, armed twen-
ty-five years, deposed in answer to the interrogatories put to him,
that he knew nothing of the right of Sir Richard Scrope to the
arms; but he had seen him armed twice in Scotland, and with his
banner. As to the other points, he replied that he could say no
more than he had already done- Being asked if he was of the
blood of or aflinily to Sir Robert Grosvenor, he said that he was
of his affinity.
ae
SIR WILLIAM DE LYE was, il is presumed. Sir Wjlliam S
DE Legh of Baggilcy, who was afterwards examined on behalf of
Sir Robert Grosvenor.
Sir William de Lye, of the age of thirty, and armed fifteen
years, said he knew nothing of the right of Sir Richard Scrope
to the said arms, nor whether they descended to him by a direct
line or not; but he said that he had heard that the ancestors
of Sir Richard had long borne the said arms, and from ancient
times ; he had not heard who was the first of his ancestors that
bore them, or how long they had used them. He said he was not
related to Sir Robert Grosvenor.
SIR LAWRENCE DE DUTTON was likewise examined
for Sir Robert Grosvenor.
Sir Lawrence de Button, of the age of fifty, and armed twenty
years and upwards, knew nothing of the right of Sir Richard
Scrope to the disputed arms; nor had he ever seen him so armed.
Though he hud been in divers expeditions in France and Scotland,
he had never «een Sir Richard or his sous, or progenitors, or
VOL. 11. 2 M
DEPn\E\T> 1\ FAVOUR OF
1. -- i . •-
=.T :c z±^ bkpjd s:» anaeti, until the last expedition in Scotland
rti tJif: Kizz He had not heard who was the first of Sir Ri-
bij-r* szfC^zcTy that had borne these aims, but had heard that
»t wi^ * -*- of the law. He admitted that be was rdated to
MT Rcotn Gro?TeQor.
SIR RALPH VERNriN. This knight was also exa-
si bT Ljt proctor of Sir Robert Grosvenor.
Hr a&ii he was- tifrv vears of a^. and had been armed for
mm ^
■■=!itT Trir«w To the intcrroffaiuries pat to him, he gave the
Lz.>w±r^ a^ Duttos had done ; and to the question whether
.jki eTr-r secQ Sir Richard Scrupe or any branch of his funily
Kti ii tJjT arms Azure, a bend Or. he said. No; but that he
ZiMZ ZfttzTL ar=>rv: in divers ex})edition> in France and in Scotland,
:»r: ifcTt-r siw aaj of the blood of Sir Richard so armed until the
i£<c txTt£3z:r>:*:i in Scotland. He admitted that he was related to
Sir R^otn «.Trct^TeDor.
h^ B-H SIR HIGH BROWE. Tne notice of this witness win be
3.»:zji :i k --bsequent page, among the deponents for Sir Robert
•rr:^?TffI,:c.
Sz- H-rh Browe. aged forty, and armed twentv x-eurs and
ri'WErn^'. -^LLi hr knew nothing of the right of Sir Richard
>rr:cfe t : the ims, hut had often heard that he and his sons and
:cSrr? :c ri* bk»:*i h?d used tlie >a:d arms ; but the Deponent had
it^tr 'z*ireL iz the expeditions where Sir Richard was armed, for
re uii- L*r sii^. l»rt-n e employed in g^arrisi^ns during the wars and
zi t^ cizrpzi^rtis in France, and never in the ixars in neat expe-
zrj:i:>- Ke o-Ia n^;»t dt.}x^»sc as to the time, or as to who was
*-:*= rr-: LZtce>:oz of Sir R:chanl that had borne these arms.
Hi iit^zL ir wi> :■:" the Wolki ol Sir Robert Grosvcnor,
.. i.^.:. SIR RKH.\JID BINGHAM was the eldest son of Sir
TT^Ihiz: B::r..ar.., of Bingham in the county of Xottingham.
Zz zixt I^th E-w. III. 1344, hi< faihtr settled the manor of Clip-
-^.rst -Tire hiz: and Angora his ^ife;' hence be must have been
-y.n L? i-irly as the yt^ar 13:2o, though he is stated to have been
'1- rfry izii jp«ard< in l.*586.
Til i-r ..*. Ill 's I J ;>: en ci N cti .n c San: >h: rt , p. 7 2-
SIR RICHARD SCROPB. 267
On the 20lh April 1360, being then a Knight, he obtained S'" ^'<"<'
letters of protection in consequence of being abroad in the King's
service with Sir Ralph Bassett.' In 1380 and 1382 he was again
in the King's service abroad, and received letters of general at-
torney.'' It appears from his deposition thjit he removed from
Nottingham to Chester sliortly before 1386; and he died at
Chester on Thursday before the feast of St. Matthew, 19th Sep-
tember 1387;' but the only lands of which he is said, in the
printed Calendar of the Inquisitiones post mortem, to have died
seised, were in Nottinghamshire, and among them was the manor
of Bingham.
His wife's name was Annora, and by her he had William Bing-
ham, on whom and Margaret his wife he settled the manor of
Clipstone in 1366. The said William Bingham died a short
time before his father, leaving a son Robert Bingham, who
was three years old, and heir to his grandfather, in 1387.* It
is presumed by Thoroton that this Robert Bingham died
young, and without issue; for, in the 1st Hen. IV. a fine was
levied between Sir Thomas Rempston, Knight, complainant, and
Richard late King of England, deforciant, of the manors of Bing-
liam and Clipstone. whereby they were settled on Sir Thomas
Rempston and his heirs. Isabel the widow of William Bing-
ham held Clipstone for life; and Joan the widow of Sir John
Paveley held Bingham for life, and after her decease it was to
descend to William Arundel and Agnes his wife, with remainder
to the said King and his heirs ;* but Sir Thomas Rempston's con-
nection with the lands of the Bingham family may have arisen
from the marriage of his youngest daughter with Richard Bing-
ham, Junior, Esq.^
Sir Richard Bingliam, aged fifty and upwards, armed thirty
years, said that he had not seen or known the arms of the said
Sir Richard Scrope ; that he had served in the expedition of the
late King; that he recollected well to have seen the arms Azure,
a bend Or, with a label Argent, in the expedition of the late
6 Ric. II. Carle's Gasci
' RoL Franc. 34 F.dw. III.
' Rol. Ftanc. 4 Ric. 11. and
> Esch. 11 Ric. II, n" 10.
* Thoroton's History of Notlinghamafaire, p. 72. and Kaclieat 11 Itic. II n'
' Tborolon' Hiatoty of Nollidghamsliire, p, 144. ' See page 201.
2 M 2
268
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
SlK KXCHARO
BnfOHAM.
King before Paris ; but to whom they belonged, or their names, he
knew not: nor did he know whether they appertained to Sir Richard,
or to his ancestors, or to his sons, nor who was the first that bore
them, nor how long. He said he was not related to Sir Robert
Grosvenor; and added, that he had lived only a short time in
Cheshire.
The arms of Sir Richard Bingham were. Or, on a fess Gules,
three water bougets Argent.^
Sir William
Baerbton.
SIR WILLIAM BRERETON. Though convicted and
heavily fined for his contumacy in refusing to give evidence when
examined by the proctor of Sir Richard Scrope, he was a willing
witness in favour of Sir Robert Grosvenor, of which fact his rela^
tionship to the Grosvenors is a sufficient explanation.
Sir William Brereton was sworn according to the accustomed
form before the Commissioners, but he would not depose nor give
his testimony, notwithstanding that he was frequently entreated
and required so to do by the proctor of Sir Richard Scrope ; and
moreover, when the said Commissioners admonished him to come
to be examined, he retired into the town, and would not give
his evidence. Being again admonished to attend, he absented
himself, and would not depose ; and being admonished a third
time, he refused to obey, and departed out of Court and of the
town in great contumacy. Whereupon, for these contumacies
and offences, the said Sir William was fined twenty pounds
sterling.
John
Leycestre,
Esq.
JOHN LEYCESTRE, Esquire. Though not quite so con-
tumacious in manner as Sir William Brereton, he was equally so
in effect ; for, to all the interrogations of Sir Richard Scrope''s
proctor, he replied that he knew nothing whatever on the subject.
When he was examined on behalf of Sir Robert Grosvenor, how-
ever, his memory was exceedingly tenacious, and he proved one of
the most useful witnesses for the Defendant. The admission with
which his deposition on that occasion closed, that he was cousin
to Grosvenor, prevents any surprise being felt at his conduct.
' Roll of Arms in the possession of tlie Rev. John Newling.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 269
SIR JOHN POLE. The brief and unsatisfactory answers SirJohnPoik.
which this Deponent gave to the interrogations of Sir Richard
Scrope''s proctor rendered it likely that he was subsequently a
witness on behalf of Sir Robert Grosvenor ; and though his depo-
sition has been lost, the conjecture is proved to be correct by the
name of " Sir John de Pulle, Knight, aged thirty-four,^ being
among the persons who were examined at Chester on the 9th
January 1386-7.^ As the purport of his evidence cannot be re-
covered, this becomes the proper place to notice him.
Sir John Pole, or Boole, was the son and heir of Robert de
Pull, or Poole, of Poole in Cheshire, by the daughter and heiress
of Thomas de Capenhurst, and was born about 1353. The infor-
mation about him is very slight : that he was twice examined in
the controversy, and was the father of five sons, Thomas, Richard,
John, James, and William, and a daughter Elizabeth, who married
John Legh, of the East Hall in High Legh, Esq. comprises
all which can be said of him. His eldest son, Thomas Poole
of Poole, Esq. married by virtue of a Papal dispensation, they
being related within the fourth degrees, Elizabeth daughter of Sir
William Stanley of Hooton in Cheshire, and was the ancestor of the
late Sir Henry Poole of Poole, and of Lewes Priory, Baronet,*
whose title became extinct on his death on the 25th May 1821.
Sir John Pole having been sworn, and severally asked the same
questions as had been put to the preceding witness, said that he
knew not how to answer such inquiries, or to state any thing
relating to them.
The arms of Sir John Pole were, Azure, semee of fleurs-de-lis
Or, a lion rampant Argent.
' See vol. i. page 361. * Ormerod's History of Cheshire, vol. ii.p. 235.
270 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN IN THE CHAPTER-HOUSE OF THE
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. PETER OF YORK, BEFORE
THE ABBOT Of THE ABBEY OF OUR LADY OF YORK,
AND SIR JOHN DERWENTWATER, ON THE 17*^ SEPTEM-
BER, W^ RIC. 11. 1386.
The Abbot of THE ABBOT OF SELBY. JoHN DE Sherburne, Abbot of
the Mitred Abbey of Selby in Yorkshire, is said to have succeeded
to that dignity in 1367, and had restitution of the temporalities on
the 20th April 1368 ;^ but his election appears from the inscrip-
tion on his tomb, wherein he is recorded to have been Abbot of
Selby for thirty years, to have taken place about 1377. He was a
native of Selby, and was bom about the year 1335. The Abbot
was twice appointed a trier of petitions in Parliament in 1382 ;^ and
in December 1406 was one of the Peers who sealed the exempli-
fication of the instrument by which the Crown was settled on the
posterity of Henry the Fourth.^ He died soon afterwards; for,
on the 13th May 1407, William Pigot being Abbot of Selby, had
restitution of the temporalities.* Abbot Sherburne was buried in
his own church, and the following inscription was placed on his tomb :
** 9n ^tlb^ natui^, 3oi)mnti tfe i^^itbuvm hociiatni,
dTunere proi^tratuij, 9bbai$ jacet i)u tumulatuii
9nmi$ tor tfenii^ nutuij hirit btvu flmisi,
(Sut tfnnptut poenti^, tuxmii jungatur Amotixii. Smen." *
The Abbot of Selby, of the age of fifty years, produced on the
part of Sir Richard Scrope, being sworn and examined on the
17th September, was asked whether he knew what arms belonged
to Sir Richard Scrope, said Yes, Azure, a bend Or: being asked
how he knew that those were his arms, said that he had heard old
lords of the country, knights, and esquires, and others, commonly
say, that the arms Azure, a bend Or, were always those of Sir
" Monasticou Anglicauum, New Edition, iii. 496. Pat. 43 Edw. I. p. i.
* Rot. Pari. iii. 133. 145. » Rot. Pari. iii. 582, 583.
* Monasticon Anglicanum, New Edition, iii. 496.
^ Burton's Monasticon Eboracense, p. 405.
sm RICHARD SCBOPE. 271
Richard and his ancestors, and never heard to the contrary; and ^"'
thai the said arnia were always used by the said Sir Richard, or by
his brothers, or by hia cousins, or by his uncles, in time of war.
Being asked whether the said arms descended to him by inheritance
or descent in direct line, he said Yes, for the said arms are in the
south aisle of their church. Azure, a bend Or, with a label Arf^nt,
in a glass window at the altar of St. John the Baptist, and have
been there since the building of the church, which is beyond me-
mory. Being asked how he knew that they were placed there for the
arms of the Scropes, and not for those of Sir Robert Grosveoor, he
answered, that he had heard old monks who were in the said abbey in
the time of his youth say, that they were placed there for tlie arras
of Serope, and those arms have always borne the name of Scrope,
and he never heard tothe contrary. Being asked how he knew that
they had descended in right line of inheritance, he said, he had often
heard old lords, knights, esquires, and competent persons say, that
Scrope's ancestors had used those arms in the wars as their proper
arms from beyond time of memory. He had never heard that those
arms were ever challenged or interrupted by any of the ancestors of
the Grosvenors, or by himself, or any other in his name ; and had
never heard the name of Grosvenor mentioned before that day.
The said arms were, he said, in the porch of the infirmary, high
over the door : and in the chapel of the said infirniary were the same
arms in a glass window, between those of Lord Percy and Lord
Moubray, and had been in the said window and porch ever since
the building of the said infirmary, which was beyond the memory
of man. They were also, he said, painted in an old hall on a
banner, between those of Lord Moubray and Lord Neville, the
building of the said chamber and the painting being beyond memory.
The said arms were called, and have been called immeniorialty in
the said abbey, the arms of Scrope. There was also in the said
abbey an old book, illuminated in colours, full of escocheons of
the arms of kings, princes, earls, barons, bannerets, knights, and
esquires, and in the same was the name of each lord written over it ;
and of each baron and banneret, and of knights and esquires,
amongst which are found the arms of Scrope, Azure, a bend Or,
and their names written over them, the making of which book is
beyond meuiory. Being asked if he had heard of Sir Robert Gros-
1
The Abbot of
Selby.
272
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
venor, or of his arms, or that he had any right to the arms
Azure, a bend Or, or whether any of his ancestors are buried, or
are painted, or in any other manner represented in his abbey, or
in any other place, said, that he never heard of him until this
controversy commenced ; but said on his oath that the said arms
belonged to Sir Richard Scrope and to his ancestors, as common
fame testified, from beyond the memory of man in those parts.
Tub. Abbot op
RiVAULX.
THE ABBOT OF RIVAULX. This abbey, which was
the first of the Cistercian Order in Yorkshire, was founded by
Walter Espec in the year 1131. The family name of the Depo-
nent has not been positively ascertained, but he was probably the
William Brymley upon whose resignation Henry Burton was
elected Abbot on the 10th November 1423.^ As however the
Deponent was only forty-nine in 1386, he could scarcely have been
an abbot before 1365.
The Abbot of Rivaulx, aged forty-nine, said he had seen Sir
Richard Scrope, Sir Henry Scrope, and some of their children and
sons ; that he knew their arms, and that Sir Richard bore Azure,
a bend Or ; that he had heard that Sir Richard had a right to
bear them, having so heard from old lords, barons, bannerets,
knights, and esquires of the country, and from old monks when
be was a monk in his youth : that there were three charters with-
out date ; the one of Sir Henry Scrope, who gave divers lands to
the Abbey of Rivaulx, or Newsom on Tees, and of the said Sir
Henry, sealed with their arms in white wax, the making of which
charters and donation are beyond memory of man ; that it was
the common report throughout the country where he resides, that
the said arms appertain by right line and inheritance to the said
Sir Richard. Being asked whether any of the ancestors of the said
Sir Richard lie interred in their abbey, he said No ; but he said
there were in his abbey other charters, dated seventy years ago,
containing donations to the Abbey of Rivaulx, sealed with their
arms. He added, that he had never heard of Sir Robert Gros-
venor or of his ancestors in the county of York.
The said Abbot, at the close of his examination, exhibited two
charters, which began with these words : ' To all the faithful in
' Monasticon Anglicanura, N. E. v. 274—277
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 273
' Christ, present and future, Henr^, son of Simon Scrope of Tei
' Flotmanby, greeting: Know ye that I have granted, &c. toOod
' and the Monks of St. Mary of Rivaulx, for the health of my soul,
' and of the souls of all my ancestors and heirs, all the land which
' Simon my father gave them in the territory of Flotmanby,' 8sc.
which charter was without date; but at the end it was thus con-
tinued : ' And to this charter 1 have set my seal in the presence
' of Sir Nicholas, Dean of Seltryngton, Geffrey his brother, Robert
' Ingram, William his brother, William de Barton, William
' Herlesey, Robert de Helperthorpe, Robert de Kylmyngholme,
' Walter Scrope, Walter Shankes of Flotmanby, and others."
The other charter commenced thus : ' To all the sous of Mo-
' ther Church, present and future, Walter Scrope, son of
' Gilbert Scrope, greeting : Know ye that 1 have granted and
' confirmed to God and the Monks of the church of St. Mary of
' Rivaulx, in pure alms, for the health of my soul, &c, the gift of
' Simon Scrope of Flotmanby, Witnesses, Hubert Prior of
' Bridlyngton, Ada Prioress of Malton, Walter de Folketone,
' Robert de Royethorpe, Asce de Flixtone, Simon the Constable,
' Robert de Helperthorpe, Nicholas de Bruinn, Henry Fitz Wil-
' liam, Ralph Noble, Walter Shankes, Robert de Kereby, and
' others.'
THE ABBOT OF GEBVAUX. The Abbey of Gervaux, or t.,l;
Joreval, wa.s situated in the parish of East Wilton in Yorkshire, "
and the Scrope family were among its early benefactors. In 1349
the baptismal name of the Abbot was John, and in 1399 Richard
Gower was elected to that situation,' but the Deponent has not
been identified.
The Abbot of Gervaux, aged fifty and upwards, said he had
known the arms of Sir Richard Scrope, the same being in divers
places in liis Abbey in glass windows and paintings, entire and
with differences, and that he had miminients or charters of the
Scropes ; and showed a release without date, with their seal, be-
ginning thus: 'To all, Sic. Geffrey le Scrope, Knight, greeting,
* &c. Whereas the Abbot and Convent of Joreval oweth me
' MoBaaticon Anglicanum, N. E. v. 567.
St. AoATHik.
274 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Thb Abbot of « and mv heirs yearly eight marks of silver of a mine of coals at
Gervaux
* Golstredale, &c. I grant, &c. In testimony wherfeof, I have set
* my seal hereto in the presence of Sir John de Moubray, Henry le
^ Scrope, Thomas de Schefelde, Knights, William de Scurnetone,
* bailiff of Richmond, John of Burton Constable, William of Pom-
* fret, and many others.' The Abbot further said, that he had
heard from very old lords, and knights, and esquires throughout
his country who had known the ancestors of Sir Richard, that the
said arms had descended to him in direct line ; that his ancestors
had borne them from beyond the time of memory ; that there was
one Thomas le Scrope, monk and abbot of the same abbey,
who caused a tablet on which were the said arms depicted, to be
put up in the church, and that the said tablet was made eight
score years ago, as fully appeared by the writing. He added, that
he had never heard in his country of Sir Robert Grosvenor or
his ancestors.
John, Abbot OF JOHN, ABBOT OF ST. AGATHA. The Abbey of St-
Agatha, or Agace, was situated in Richmondshire near the princi-
pal seat of the Scrope family ; and Lord Scrope of Bolton having
bought the fee of Tor, he and his descendants were considered its
founders.^ Many of them, including himself, were buried within
its walls : they bequeathed legacies to the abbey and were its con-
stant benefactors. The Abbot in 1386 was, it appears, John de
Esby; but in the list in the Monasticon, no person occurs be-
tween Thomas de Haxley, who was confirmed in that office in Oc-
tober 134t5, and Robert Preston, who was confirmed in January
1447. There can be little doubt that the Deponent was the
" John, Abbot of St. Agatha,"' to whom Richard Lord Scrope of
Bolton, by his Will in 1401, bequeathed a gold cup which the
Prince had given him, which cup was to descend to the future
abbots ; ^ as well as the " John de Esby, Abbot of St. Agatha,"
to whom Sir Stephen Scrope left a silver bason and ewer and five
marks.^
John, Abbot of St. Agatha, aged forty years and upwards, being
asked whether any persons of the name of Scrope are interred in
* Monasticon Anglicanum, vi. 921.
See page 31. » See page 50.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 27S
his abbey, said, Yes: being asked who they were, and how they .Iohs.Arbot
were interred, whether in the ground or above the ground, said,
that the father of Sir Ricliard Scrope lay in the said abbey
under the choir, and higher up in a part of their church above
the choir under raised stones, and upon the stone is the represen-
tation of a knight painted with the arms Azure, a bend Or, who
was called in his hfetinie Sir Henry Scrope, one of the founders
of the same abbeys the which Sir Henry had a son Sir William
Scrope, elder brother of Sir Richard Scrope that now is, and lieth
sculptured on a high tomb, armed, and the arms engraved on a
shield represented upon him without colours ; and many others of
their lineage interred under Bat stones, with their effigies sculptured
thereon, and their shields represented with these arms, and on one
side of the shield a naked sword ; and their arms were throughout
the church of St. Agatha in glass windows, and on tablets before
the altars, on vestments of the said abbey, and in chambers, in glass
windows of chambers in their refectory. And also the said anns were
on a curporas case of silk, the making of which and the donor of
it were beyond memory. The Abbot added, that the arms belonged
of right to Sir Richard's ancestors, they having publicly used
them in expeditions of the King in France and Scotland, and from
the time of the Conquest, as may be seen in the Chronicle of
Bridlington, and that his family were so ancient as to surpass the
memory of man, &c. He had never heard of Sir Robert Gros-
venor or of his ancestry.
THE ABBOT OF BYLAND. The Abbey of Byland, TueAbbov.
Bellaland, Begeland, or Bechland in Yorkshire, was founded in
114>3 by Roger de Mowbray, at the instance of his mother
Gundreda.'
In the list of abbots of that place, it is said that Robekt ub
Helmeslav was confirmed in that dignity on the 9th June 1370,
and who, it is probable, was the Deponent.
The Abbot of Byland, aged fifty, in reply to the usual inter-
rogatories, said that Scrope was not the founder or patron of
his church, nor did any of his ancestors lie there ; that when
he was young and a young monk, he saw Sir Richard come
' HoDuticon Anglicanum, N. £. v, 34i.
S M 2
^
276
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
The Abbot of
Bylano.
to the Abbey of Byland, and that the arms of Sir Richard are
painted in the refectory of that abbey on the wall. Azure, a
bend Or; that he had heard the monks say in his youth that
they belonged to Sir Richard, and often when the knights of the
country were in the abbey, they have said, * Look ! there are the
arms of Sir Richard le Scrope."* The Abbot also said, that the said
arms are in a chapel of St. Mary Magdalene near the gate, and
were depicted on the wall there more than a century before, be-
yond memory. He said he did not know who first bore them,
but had heard from old knights that they came in direct line of
descent to Sir Richard from beyond the time of memory, and never
heard to the contrary. He had never heard of Sir Robert Gros-
venor or of his ancestors.
The Abbot op
Roche.
THE ABBOT OF ROCHE. The Abbey of Roche, or De
Rupe, in the deanery of Doncaster, was founded by Richard de
Builli- and Richard Fitz Turgis, or De Wickeslai, in 1147.*
In November 1358 John dp Aston was Abbot of Roche ; but
he could not have been the Deponent, as he was then only nine-
teen years old ; and the next name which occurs is that of Robert,
who became Abbot in 1396.*
The Abbot of Roche, aged forty-seven, said, that in the
north part of his church were the arms of one Sir Geoffrey le
Scrope, cousin to the said Sir Richard, Azure, a bend Or, 'with a
label Argent, painted in a glass window, beyond the time of me-
mory ; that he had heard in his youth from many valiant knights
and esquires, and old brothers now deceased, that they were the
arms of Sir Geoffrey le Scrope, and that the arms Azure, a bend
Or, had descended to Sir Richard, as chief of the blood of Scrope,
from the time of the Conquest ; and that he had never heard of Sir
Robert Grosvenor, or of his arms, or of his ancestors, until the time
when these arms were challenged.
The Abbot of THE ABBOT OF COVERHAM. Ck)rham or Coverham
CovEBHAM. Abbey is said by Tanner to have been founded in the reign of
Henry the Second by Helewise daughter of Ralph Glanville,
1 Monasticon Anglicanum,N. E. V. 501.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 277
Chief Justice of England, at Swainbj, in the parish of Pickhall; T"t
but was removed to Corham in 1212, by her son Ralph Fitz
Kobert, Lord of Middleham.'
The name of this individual cannot with certainty be stated.
In 1331 William de Alberugh was Abbot,' but he could not have
been the Deponent. In May 1414, Cuthbert de Ridmere filled
that situation;' and as the Deponent was only forty years of age
in 13ti6, it i^ not improbable that he may have been living eigh-
teen years afterwards.
The Abbot of Coverham, of the age of forty, said, that he had
heard from the oldest and most ancient men of the country, that
the ancestors of Sir Richard Scrope were <iescended from ancient
gentlemen and noble blood, and of such old time, that it was beyond
the memory of man, for it was commonly said that they came with
the Conqueror; that one Sir Geoffrey Scrope, who bore for his
arms Azure, a bend Or, with a label Argent, was interred in the
body of his church before the high cross, in a lofty tomb, with
the effigy of a knight armed in those arms ; and one of his sons,
who lies below under a flat stone, with a shield of his arms, dif-
ferenced by three crescents Azure on the bend, who was called
Thomas Scrope, and another of his lineage and name on the
other side below upon the ground, which Geoffrey Scrope is one
of their founders; and in his church in several places were the
arms with a label Argent, in the glass windows; that he had
heard that these arms had descended to the said Sir Richard by
a direct line and inheritance, and they have had peaceable pos-
session of the same without challenge. The Abbot added, that
he had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of any one bear-
ing his name.
THE PRIOR OF GISBURGH. The Priory of Gisburgh, T,»
in Yorkshire, was founded in the reign of Henry the First by
Robert de Brus. In December 1346 John de Derlington became
Prior; and in 1391 John de HriiREWOUTii filled that office, who,
it ia most likely, was the Deponent. He resigned in September
1393,* probably on account of age and infirmities; for, if he were
' Monaslicon An^licaiDUTii, N. E.. vi. 920.
n Anglicanuni, N. E. vi. 263.
278
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
The Prior of Prfor in 1386, he must then have been upwards of seventy-three
OlSBURGH
years old at the time of his resignation.
The Prior of Gisburgh, aged sixty-six, deposed that there
were no sepultures of the ancestors of Sir Richard Scrope in his
church, but said that his church was burnt ninety-seven years ago,
and rebuilt, in which church might be found the arms of Scrope ifi
a glass window, Azure, abend Or, with a small lioncel purpure in
the canton of the shield at the top, on the bend, which lioncel was
granted to one of the Scropes by the Earl of Lincoln, for term
of the life of the said Scrope : the Prior said that he knew them
to be the arms of the Scropes from tradition, and the information
of old friars then deceased. He also said that in the south aisle of
the cross of his church were the arms of one of the Scropes, with a
white label in a glass window, and that he had seen the said arms
entire, painted on the wall of Skelton Castle, which glass and
painting are of time immemorial, and knew them to be the arms of
Scrope from public report ; and never in his time heard but that
the arms belonged to Scrope by right of inheritance, as he had
often been told by valiant soldiers now deceased. He had never
seen or known the arms of Sir Robert Grosvenor, nor ever heard
of him or his ancestry.
John, Sub-
Prior OF
Wartrx.
JOHN DE CLOWORTH, SUB-PRIOR OF WARTRE.
The Priory of Wartre is in the deanery of Herthill in the East
Riding of Yorkshire, and was founded in 1132 by Geoffrey Fitz
Paine, alias Trusbut.^ Of John de Cloworth, who was Sub-Prior
in 1386, nothing has been discovered.
John de Cloworth, Sub-Prior of Wartre, sent by his Prior and
of the age of fifty and upwards, said, that he knew the arms of
Sir Richard Scrope, the same being painted on a wall in a hall of
their priory, the making of which painting was beyond the me-
mory of man. He then exhibited before the commissioners an
amice embroidered on red velvet with leopards and griffons Or,
between which were sewn in silk, in three places, three escocheons
with the entire arms of Sir Richard Scrope thereon, viz. Azure,
a bend Or ; and the said arms were placed in four circles Or em-
broidered, and were made eight score }'ears ago; and the Sub-
* Monasticon Anglicanum, N. £. vi. 297.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 279
Prior also said, that the Scropes were patrons of a church of St. Jo"^» Scb-
Prior op
Martin in the city of York, in Micklegate Street, the which is im- vvartre.
propriate to the Prior of Wartre, in which church lies an ancestor
of the Scropes buried in a tomb, and at the head of the deceased
there was an escocheon sculptured and embossed of stone, with the
arms of Scro[>e with a label without colours, and at his feet a
similar escocheon which he knew by common parlance contained
the arms of Scrope, and that such was known throughout the
city of York, and a hundred years are passed since the said tomb
was made: he added, that according to common report in the
country, the first ancestor of the said Sir Richard came over
with the Conqueror. The Sub- Prior said he had never heard of
Sir Robert Grosvenor or of his ancestry.
WILLIAM, PRIOR OF LANERCOST. The Priory of Wiluam.
. Prior of
Lanercost, in the county of Cumberland, was founded in the Lanercost.
year 1169 by Robert de Vallibus, or Vaux, Lord of Oillesland.^
The name of the Prior in 1386 is not mentioned. A very
valuable early chronicle which was kept in this priory is now in
the British Museum.^
William, Prior of the house of Lanercost, of the age of thirty-
three, said, that he had heard that the arms belong to Sir Richard
Scrope, they having descended to him by inheritance; that in
the west end of his church are the arms of Scrope within a bor-
dure Or, in a glass window; and the same arms are placed in
the refectory between those of Vaux and Multon their founders ;
that in their refectory and the west window of their church are
the old arms of the King of England, the arms of France, the
arms of Scotland,^ and the arms of Scrope, Azure, a bend Or,
within a bordure Or, the which arms have been in the said win-
dows since the building of their church in the time of King Henry
the Second, and by common report throughout the country they
were the arms of Scrope ; that there remained banners which were
used at the funerals of great lords, embroidered with their arms,
amongst which were those of Scrope entire. He said, the arms
were also entire in glass in an old chapel of Kirk Oswald, and
that they had in their church the said arms embroidered on a
* Monasticon Anglicanum, vi. 236. * Cottonian MS. Claudius C. vii.
280
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
William,
Prior of
Lamxrcost.
morsus [a sort of clasp] on a cope, with a white label for dif-
ference, and the same had been in the priory from beyond the
time of memory. Being asked how he knew that the said arms
belonged to Sir Richard, he said that such had always been the
tradition in their house, and that he had heard the Prior his
predecessor, who was an old man, say, that he had heard from
ancient lords, knights, and esquires, that the Scropes were come
of a noble race and high blood from the time of the Conqueror,
as appeared by evidences ; and the Prior who preceded him said,
that they were cousins to one Gant who came over with the
Conqueror, and that these arms were descended in right line to
Sir Richard Scrope, as was known by common report in all parts of
the North. As to Sir Robert Grosvenor, he said upon his oath,
that he had never heard of him or of his ancestors until the day
of his examination.
The Prior of
Newburoh.
THE PRIOR OF NEWBURGH. This Priory was founded
in 1145 by Roger de Mowbray. The only names of Priors of
Newburgh in the Monasticon between the middle of the four-
teenth and early in the fifteenth century are, Thomas de Haste»
wayt, who was confirmed on the 13th November 1369; John
Esyngwald, the date of whose election is not mentioned ; and John
Multon, who was confirmed in 1437.^ It is most likely that
Esyngwald was the Deponent.
The Prior of Newburgh, of the age of sixty and upwards, said,
that he had heard in his youth old canons of his house, now dead,
say, that Sir Henry Scrope bore the arms Azure, a bend Or, in his
lifetime, and that Sir Geoffrey Scrope bore them in his time with a
white label, as appeared by divers glass windows in their church, in
which were the said arms entire and with a label, and they were also
set up in their refectory in memory of the ancestors of the said Sir
Henry and Sir Geoffrey, the which arms had been there ever since
the building of the church and refectory, which was beyond memory.
He knew they were painted in memory of the ancestors pf Sir
Richard le Scrope, because they appear on divers instruments
sealed with the arms of Sir Geoffrey, which were the same arms
with a label, and also an acquittance sealed with the seal of Sir
' Monasticon ADglicaDum, N. £. vi. 317.
^
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 281
Henry without a label, and because they were generally and coo- Tue Pmoi
stantly throughout the country called the arms of Scrope, and had
■ descended to the said Sir Richard in right line from the time of
the Conijueat, as he had often heard from old Knights, Esquires,
and Canons of his house now deceased. He had never seen or
heard of Sir Robert Groavenor, or of his ancestors, or of his arms.
JOHN DE YEVERSLEY, Cakon and Celeber, and
JOHN DE QUELDRIKE, Canon and Sacristan of the Psiohy
op Bridlington.
The Priory of Bridlington, of the order of St. Austin, was
founded early in the reign of Henry the First by Walter de Gant,
Lord of Kolkinghani, who was also founder of the Abbey of Bard-
ncy. The said Walter de Gant was father of Gilbert de Gant, the
first Earl of Lincoln.^
John de Yeversley, Canon and Cellarer of the Priory of Brid-
lington, aged fifty, and John de Queldrike, Canon and Sacristan of
the same priory, of the age of thirty-six, sent by their Prior. They
had, they said, heard of the ancestry of the said Sir Richard Scrope,
because their priory has possessions of the donation of the said
ancestors, which they proved by showing divers charters, sealed
with large " solemn" seals, and within the seals, effigies of knights
on horseback, with swords in their hands, bke those used at the
time of the Conquest, of one Walter de Gant, which charter is
without date, in which there is as a witness Walter le Scrope,
ancestor of the said Sir Henry, the which Walter de Gant was
of the time of Henry, son of the Conqueror. They also exhibited
divers charters of Gilbert de Gant Earl of Lincoln, Simon Earl
of Northampton and Alice his wife, daughter and heir to the said
Sir Gilbert, and Robert de Gant, brother and heir of the said
Gilbert Earl of Lincoln. They said that one Hugh le Scrope,
ancestor of the said Sir Richard Scrope, was in their time ; and
they showed by chronicles, that he lived in the fifth year of King
Stephen ; and that amongst other grants of the said lords and
ladies, the said Hugh le Scrope held certain fees and tenements by
service of the said lords and ladies. They exhibited also a charter
of one Robert le Scrope, son of the said Hugh, whereby he
< Taoner's Notitia, p. 649. Burloo's Mon. Ebor. p. 213.
VOL. II. 2 o
JoBM m
282
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
John de
Yeversley,
AND
John de
queldrike.
granted certain lands and tenements to their church, which charter
is seale^ with the effigy of a knight holding a sword like those of
the Conquest, and several other muniments and charters without
date of one Philip le Scrope, son to the said Robert, which
Philip was of the time of King John, as appeared by a fine levied
by Simon brother to the said Philip, to Henry son to the said
Simon. They likewise exhibited an old charter of Robert 6ant,
son of Walter de 6ant, without date, in which one Robert le
Scrope is a witness. And also the said Canons exhibited a book
of chronicles, in which are the names of the Scropes, of the time of
those who bore the name of Oant, who came into England with
the Conqueror. They said also, that the arms Azure, a bend Or,
are in glass windows in their church, entire, and with a white label;
and that the said Scropes and their ancestors have been in con-
tinual and peaceable possession, without default of heirs male ; and,
as appears by their chronicle, were benefactors to their said priory
since the Conquest. They added, that they had heard noble and
valiant warlike Knights say, that the Scropes have been armed in
the said arms in presence of kings, princes, dukes» earls, barons, and
other lords, in the wars. They knew nothing of Sir Robert Gros-
venor or of his progenitors, of whom there is no sepulture in their
priory, nor other place that they knew of; nor had they ever heard
of him until the time of their examination.
William de
Holme.
WILLIAM DE HOLME, Canon and Celerbr of Watton.
The Priory of Watton, anciently Vetadun, was a nunnery in the
archdeaconry of the East Riding of Yorkshire, founded by Eustace
Fitz-John, under the direction of Gilbert of Sempringham, about
1150,^ upon the site of a more ancient nunnery, which, according
to Bede, existed in 686.^
William de Holme, Canon and Cellarer of Watton, of the order
of Sempryngham, sent by his Prior, said that he had seen and
known the arms of Sir Richard Scrope which are in their priory
of Watton ; that upon the walls of their refectory there were
the arms of divers lords, knights, and esquires painted, and on
glass windows, from ancient time, amongst which were the arms
of Scrope with a label Argent, and have been there ever since the
Tanner's Notitia, p. 634.
' Bedae Hist. £ccl. Aug. v. c. 3.
1
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 283
building of tlie said refectory. He said they are commonly known Wii.
to be the arms of Scrope, and he never heard to the contrary.
He said oIeo upon his oath, that they have in their house a
chronicle from the time of the Conqueror, with the names of the
lords who came over with him, and amongst them is the name of
one of the Scropes, but he does not recollect his proper name.
He had often heard from lords, and prelates, and old knights,
that Sir Richard Scrope's ancestors hati peaceably used the said
arms from ancestor to ancestor from the time of the Conquest, as
public fame testified. He never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor
or of his arms before this debate.
SIR RALPH HASTINGS was the only son of Sir Ralph Sm
Hastings of Yorkshire, by Margaret daughter of Sir William
Herle of Kirkby in the county of Leicester, Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, and was born about 1330. His father was Go-
vernor of York Castle in 1337, and died of a wound received at
the battle of Durham in October 1346,' at which his son was also
present, having then commenced his career in arms. He was
retained to serve John of Gant for life, as well in war as in peace,
with a salary of forty marks per annuna,' and accompanied that
prince in his expeditions in Brittany, Normandy, France, and
Spain. Hastings expressly says, he was at the battles of Espag-
nols-sur-Mer in 1350, and at Najara in April 1367 ; and it may
be inferred that he was in most of the other celebrated combats of
his time.
In 1364 he succeeded as heir to his mateniBl uncle Sir Robert
Herle's lands in Leicestershire ;* and in 1369 he was joined in a com-
mission for the defence of the Marches of Northumberland, to-
wards Scotland.' He was appointed a Warden of the Western
Marches in Cumberland and Westmoreland on the 12th October
1371.* In February 1373 he was a conservator of the truce with
Scotland,* and on the 29th July 1375 was constituted a com-
missioner to punish oiFenders against the truce with that country.''
Hastings was Sheriff of Yorkshire and Governor of York Castle
in 1377, and again in 1381:^ he was appointed a Commissioner
' Collina'a Peerage, ed. 1T79, iii. 89. ' Each. 38 Edw. III. d" 23.
' CoUins's Peerage, iii. 89. * Rot. Scoc, i. 946 a.
• Rot. Scoc. i. 956. " Roi, Scoc. i. 971.
284 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Ralph of Array for the East Riding of Yorkshire in the 2nd Ric. 11.,^
li ASTINOS*
and in March 1380 was nominated one of the Commissioners to
inquire into the abuses of the royal household.^ On the 20th
August 1388, being then a Commissioner of Array for the East
Riding of Yorkshire, he was commanded to array soldiers for the
defences of the Marches.^
Sir Ralph Hastings died in 1398,^ and was buried in Sulby
Abbey. He was twice married: first to Isabel daughter and
heiress of Sir Robert de Sadyngton of Sadyngton in Leicestershire,
by whom he had a daughter Margaret, who married first Sir Roger
Heron, and secondly Sir John Blacket.^ His second wife was Maud
daughter and coheiress of Sir Robert Sutton of Sutton in Hol-
demess,^ and by her he had a daughter, Maud, and five sons, name-
ly, Ralph, Richard, Leonard, John, and Bartholomew. Sir Ralph
Hastings, the eldest son, was eighteen years old at his father^s de-
cease: he became involved in a conspiracy against Henry the
Fourth, and was beheaded and attainted in July 1405. His bro-
ther and heir. Sir Richard Hastings, obtained a restoration of his
lapds, and married Elizabeth daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont
and widow of William Lord Deincourt, but died without issue in
1 437. His brother. Sir Leonard Hastings, was his heir, who mar-
ried Alice daughter of Thomas Lord Camois, and had several chil-
dren : William Hastings, the eldest son, was created Baron Hastings
of Ashby, and is now represented by the Marquess of Hastings, his
heir general ; but his heir male is the Earl of Huntingdon.
Sir Ralph Hastings, aged fifty-six, said, that he was first
armed at the battle of Durham. That on the first day he was
armed at the said battle, he saw the said arms with a label
Argent in the battle and on a banner, and on the same day Sir
Richard Scrope armed in the said arms entire, without a label.
That he never heard to the contrary, but that the said arms be-
longed to him and his ancestors, who had peaceably enjoyed them,
without challenge or interruption, from the time of the Conquest.
» Rot. Pat. 2 Ric. II. p. 2. m. 31 d. * Rot. Pail. iii. 73 b.
» Rot Scoc. ii. 95. * Esch. 21 Ric. II. n° 32. * Collinses Peerage, iii.
* Collinses Peerage. No notice of this alliance occurs in the pedigree of Sutton
of Holdemess, in Frost's " Notices of Hull." Agnes daughter and coheiress of
Sir Thomas Sutton of Holdemess married to her second husband Sir Edmund
Hastings, who was living in 1415. A pedigree in the College of Arms states that
the issue of Sir Ralph Hastings werie by his Jirst wife.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 285
He said he also saw Sir Richard so arm«d in the battle of Kspag- s
nols-sur-Mer in company of the Earl of Warwick, then deceased.
And afterwards he saw Sir Richard armed In the presence of the
Prince, in the company of the Lord of Lancaster, at the battle of
Najara in Spain. He also said he was in the old wars of Brittany
and Normandy, and that in those places were several uf the county
of Chester and of the county of Lancaster ; but he never saw there
or elsewhere the arms of Sir Robert Grosvenor or of any of his
ancestors, and he never heard of them until the controversy arose
in Scotland.
The arms of Sir Ralph Hastings were. Argent, a maunch Sable.'
SIR BRYAN STAPLETON, K.G. The family of Staple- s
ton of Yorkshire has long ranked among the most ancient and j
respectable of British gentry. In the reign of Edward theSecond,
one branch were summoned to Parliament as Barons, and other
members of their house were eminently distinguished as soldiers
and statesmen in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Depo-
nent and his elder brother Sir Miles were both elected into the
Order of the Garter, the latter being one of the original founders j
and if services, alliances, and property, entitle a family to conside-
ration, the claims of that of Stapleton cannot be disputed.
Sir Gilbert Stapleton, who was Escheator beyond the Trent in
thcISth Edw, II., married Agnes, or Maud,- eldest daughter and
coheiress of Bryan Fitz Alan, Lord of Bedale, a Peer of the Realm
' Koll of Arms tamp. Edw. III. 8vo. 1830.
' According lo the inquiaitionea post mortem oa the death of Bryan Rarou Fitz-
Alan in the 30lb Edw. 1. (n" 15.), he left two daushlcrs liis heiis, Maud and Katha-
rine ; and they iK so called iu the inquiailinn on the death of tlieir uncle. Theobald
Fitz Alan, in 1st Edw. II. (n" 11) but in the livery of her lands in Ihetlth Edw.
II, to her husband, Sir Gilbert Stapleton, her name is said to be Agiiti. (Rot.
Claus. 1! Edw. 11, in. 14.) Moreo»er Sir Gilbert Stapleton and tiie Lady jignei aie
expressly named as the father and mother of Sir Miles Slaplelon, K.G. in ihe
foundation deed of ihe Holy Priory at Ingham in Norfolk. A^es married to
her second liusband Sir Thomas Sheffield; and in 1328 (he King granted to
Thomas ShefBcld and Agnes his wife, who then held the moiety of Bedale in
the county of York of the inheritance of the same Agnes, and lo John de Grey,
who held another moiety of the same manor, by tlie law of England, after
the death of Katharine sometime his wife, a fair for three days at their manor
of Bedale, In an indenture dated Tuesday next afler the feast of St. Luke, lOth
Hen. IV. between Sir Miles Stapleton, Knight, and the Lady Joan Deincourt,
286 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Bryan in the reign of Edward the First, and by her had two sons,' Sir
K.G. ' Miles Stapleton, one of the founders of the Order of the Garter,
and Sir Bryan, the Deponent, who, according to the statement in
the Roll, must have been bom about 1320.^
It seems that Sir Bryan Stapleton commenced his military
career shortly before the expedition into France in 1340, when the
English besieged Tournay, at which he says he was present in the
King^s retinue. Towards the end of that and during the greater
part of the following year, he was at the siege of Calais; and it is
evident that he served in most of the great battles and expeditions
in the reign of Edward the Third. In 1369 he was in the army
under the Earls of Cambridge and Pembroke, which landed in
Brittany;^ and he probably continued abroad for some years, as
he is mentioned by Froissart as having been at the siege of Brest
in 1373.^
and others, respecting the advowson of the church of Bedale, it is recited that Sir
Bryan Fitz Alan, Knight, had issue two daughters, Agnes and Maud, viz. Agnes the
elder, and Maud the younger, and died ; that Sir Miles claimed from Agnes as
grandson and heir ; and that from Maud the right descended to Robert as to her son
and heir, and from Robert to the Lady Joan Deincourt as daughter and heir. This
statement is certainly erroneous. John de Grey of Rotherfield, who married the
coheiress of Bryan Fitz Alan of Bedale, (Katharine, and not Maud,) was succeeded
by a son of the same name, whose wife Matilda had dower of his lands, and died
10th Ric. II. Their son Robert Lord Grey of Rotherfield, was the &ther of Lady
Joan Deincourt. It is obvious, in this instance, that Maud the wife of the second
John de Grey has been mistaken for the heiress of Biyan Fitz Alan ; but this will
not account for finding the name of Maud instead of Agnes in the inquisition on the
death of Sir Biyan Fitz Alan. The deeds here cited are in Stillingfleet's Extracts
from Dodsworth's Collections in the Harleian MS. 793. A memoir of Bryan Fitz
Alan will be found in the " Siege of Caerlaverock,'' 4to. 1829, p. 221. The mother
of his children, whom he must have married late in life, was his second wife, and
the name of his first wife was Muriel : she died before 1290, 18th £dw. I., in
which year, by deed dated at Bedale, on Wednesday next before the feast of St.
Martin in winter, he founded a chantry in the chapel of the Viigin at Bedale,
which he appropriated to the Abbot and Convent of Jorevall, to pray for the souls
of Patricia late Countess of Richmond, of Alan father of him the said Bryan, of
Agnes his mother, of Muriel his w\fe, and of Thomas, Robert, and Theobald, sons
of Bryan; and also to pray for John Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond, for
him the said Bryan and his special friends, during his life. Record in the Aug-
mentation Office.
1 It is said that he was then upwards of sixty years of age ; but as he stated that
he had been armed for fif^y years, he could not have been less than sixty-five in 1386.
• Froissart par Buchon, v. 45. vi. 273. ' Ibid. vi. 47. 806. 219.
SIR RICHAHD SCROPE. 287
On the 20tli February 1380, he was. appointed Captain of the S
Castle of Calais, and the nest day Comptroller of that town,' I
which situations, together with that of Captain of Guisnes, he still
held in December 1381.- He was nominated a Commissioner to
treat with the King of France in April 1 380 ;^ and by a deed dated
on the lat May in that year, William Montacute, Earl of Salis-
bury, released for himself and his heirs, to Sir Bryan Staple-
ton, for the services which he had rendered to him, and more
especially during the time that the Earl had the custody of the
town of Calais, all his right in the manors of Bamburgh in Lin-
colnshire and in Brampton and other lands in the counties of
Carlisle, Westmoreland, and Cumberland. In 1382 Sir Bryan was
elected into the Order of the Garter in the third stall on the Prince's
side, instead of Sir Alan BuxhuU. On the 8th May 1383 he was
a Commissioner to review the men-at-arms and archers in the reti-
nue of the Bishop of Norwich ;' and in June following was a Com-
missioner to treat with the Count of Flanders and the Flemish
towns.' In April 1386 Sir Bryan was a Commissioner to treat for
a truce with Scotland,'' and again in March 1388.^
His advanced age sufficiently accounts for there being little
recorded of him in the last six years of his hfe ; and the latest notice
of him in connection with public atFuirs is, that he was present
at Westminster on the 7th May 1390, when sentence was pro-
nounced in the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy.' On that trial
he was also a Commissioner for the examination of witnesses ;" and
he was one of the knights to whom the claim for the arms of
Massy in 1378 were referred." He died on the 25th July 1394,"
aged nearly seventy-five, at Wighill in Yorkshire, a portion of the
estate which he inherited from his maternal grandfather, Bryan
Lord Fitz Alan." Sir Bryan Stapleton was buried in the Priory
' Carte's GascoD Soils, ii. 131, ' Fcedera, iii. p' iii. p. 121.
' F<edera, iii, p' iii. p. 97. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. H3.
' FcEdera, iii, p' iii. p. 153. • Rot. Scoc. ' Vol. i. p. 351 .
' Vol, i. p. 40. > See page 36! antea. " Each. 18. Ric. II. d" 38.
" Upon the death of Thomas de Stapletoa, lenior, of Carlton, on the 10th
August, 47 Edw. III. 1373, Sir Bryan succeeded to thai eslale and to the manor
of Kentmere in Westmoreland by virtue of bo entail, by which they were settled
on Tliomas de Stapleton and the heirs male of hi a body ; remainder to Sir Bryan
Stapletoa, Kniglil, and the heira male of his body; in default of which, to Miles
son of Sir Miles Stapleton, Knight, nilh remainder to the right heirs of the said
I
288 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Bryan of Helagh in Yorkshire,^ and was seised of the manor of Carlton
Stapleton
K.G. ' juxta Snayth, which he inherited under an entail by Thomas Staple-
ton in the time of Edward the Third, together with the third
part of the manor of Ferlyngton in that county, in right of Alice
his late wife,^ who was a daughter and coheiress of Sir John
St. Philibert.' By her he had two sons, Bryan and Miles. Sir
Thomas. A cross entail was in like manner made of the manor of Bedale in the
28th Edw. III., by which Sir Miles Stapleton, K. G. and Joan his wife settled the
manor of Cotherston, the moiety of the manors of Bedale and Askham, and of the
advowson of the church of Bedale in the county of York, and the manor of North
Morton in the county of Bucks, on Lawrence de Thomhill, and others, who re-granted
them to tlie aforesaid Sir Miles and Joan and the heirs male of their bodies ; remain-
der to Bryan Stapleton brother of the same Miles, and to the heirs male of his
body ; remainder to Miles Stapleton of Hathilsey, and to the heirs male of his body ;
remainder to the right heirs of Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale. Sir Miles Stapleton,
one of the founders of the Order of the Garter, and elder brother of the Deponent,
married Joan daughter and eventually sole heiress of Oliver Baron Ingham, and
died in December 1364. Their son and heir, Sir Miles, married £la daughter of
Sir Edmund Ufford, brother of Robert Earl of Suffolk, and died in April 1419,
leaving Sir Bryan Stapleton his son and heir. He died in 1438, and by Cecily
daughter of Lord Bardolf, had Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale and Ingham, his son
and heir, who married first Elizabeth daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge, but by her
had no issue. By his second wife Katherine daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas
de la Pole, son of Michael Earl of Suffolk, (who married secondly Sir Richard
Harcourt, and died in 1489,) Sir Miles had two daughters, Elizabeth and Joan, his
coheirs. He died 1st October 1466, at which time Elizabeth his eldest daughter
was the wife of Sir William Calthorpe, and aet 25 ; and Joan his second daughter
was the wife of Christopher Harcourt, Esq. ancestor of the Earls Harcourt, and she
is now represented by J/>rd Vernon, who is consequently one of the coheirs of the
Barony of Fitz Alan : she married secondly Sir John Hudlestone, by whom, who
died in 1512, she had issue, and died in 1519. On the death of Sir Miles Stapleton
of Ingham in 1466 without issue male, the above-mentioned entail took effect, and
Bedale forms part of the possessions of Miles Stapleton of Carlton, Esq.
» Leland's Itinerary. • Esch. 18 Ric. II. n® 36.
' Sir John St. Philibert is stated to have left three daughters his coheirs : Mar-
garet, who married Sir John Plaitz, and died in 12 Ric. II; Alice, who married
Sir Bryan Stapleton, K.G. ; and Jane, who was the wife of Sir Warine Trussell.
(Pedigrees in Vincent's MS. n*" 10. f. 328 ; and in B. 2. f. 346, in the College of
Anns.) These statements are corroborated by an entry on the Close Rolls,
8 Ric. II. reciting a grant of " Jane widow of Sir Warine Trussell," wherein it is
said that the manor of Farlington in the county of York had descended to Sir John
Plaitz, to Bryan Stapleton son and heir of Sir Bryan Stapleton, and to her the said
Jane Trussell, as three parceners and one heir : she assigned all her right therein
to the said Sir John Plaitz.
SIR RICHARD SCKOPE. 289
Miles Stapleton, the second son, settled at Wighill, and was ances- Sm B(
tor of the Stapletons of Wighill. Sir Bryan Stapleton, the eldest K.G.
son, was in the expedition with John of Gant in Spain in 1386,'
but died vit^ patria in the 15th Ric. II., leaving by Elizabeth,
sister and coheiress of Sir William Aldeburgh, Bryan his son and
heir, who was found heir to his grandfather in 1394, and then
between seven and ten years of age. He succeeded to the pro-
perty at Carlton, and appears to have served at the battle of Agin-
court,* and wiis the immediate ancestor of the present represen-
tative of the Stapletons of Carlton, Miles Stapleton, Esq. the
eldest coheir of the Baronies of Beaumont and Lovell of Tich-
mersh, whose great-great grandfather, Mark Errington, Esq,
hax'ing married Anne, sister, and eventually sole heiress, of Sir
Miles Stapleton of Carlton, Bart., their son, Nicholas Errington,
Esq. assumed the name and arms of Stapleton, on succeeding to
his maternal uncle's property.
Sir Bryan Stapleton, of the age of sixty years and upwards,
deposed that he had been armed fifty years, and that at the siege
of Tournay lie saw Sir GeofFrey Scrope armed in the arms Azure
a bend Or, with a label Argent, and that he was in the retinue of
the King. And afterwards ho saw Sir Henry Scrope with the
Earl of Northampton at the siege of Calais, and in all the great
battles and expeditions in which he had served throughout all his
time, he had either seen the said Sir Richard armed in the said
arms entire, or some of his branches or lineage with differences.
Never heard to the contrary but that the arms belonged to Sir
Richard and his ancestors, and had descended by direct line of
inheritance to him, who, as well as his ancestors, had borne them
with great honour and peaceably from beyond the time of memory,
as he had heard from his progenitors and from warriors. He said
that at no place where he had been present, had any interruption
thereto been offered by Sir Robert Grosveoor or any of his ances-
tors, or by any one in his name. He added that he was ashamed
to affirm " upon his knighthood," except to save his oath, that he
had been in the course of his life in many celebrated places and
affairs, without having ever heard it asserted that the arms had been
■ FtBdera, iii. p* iiL p. 197.
■ History of the Battle of ^incourt, Second Edition, Appendix, p. 61.
990
D£POK£KT6 IK FAVOUB OF
chdikiiged bjr Sir Robert or my penoD oo fais bdudf ; nor had he
any knowledge of Sir Robert Grosrenor or of any of his ancestors,
until the challenge in Scotland in the expeditioD with the King
by Sir Bidiani Scrope.
Sir Bryan Stapleton's arms were, Aigent, a lion rampant Sable,
dbarged on the nhoiildfr with a mullet Gules, piereed.^ His elder
brother. Sir Miles Stapleton, K.G. also bore a mullet on the lion.
t^m h^imtuWii
SIR ROBERT R008 op Ingmaiuborp. Ckmsidering the
importance of the family of Roos of IngmanthcMp, it is remarkable
that the pedigrees of it should be extremely imperfect. They
were a branch of the baronial line of Roos, and are presumed to
have sprung from William de Roos, younger brother of Robert
Baron Roos of Hamlake in the time of Richard the First.^
Sir Robert Roos was bom about the year 1310, and if the
pedigrees of Scrope be correct, was nearly related to Sir Henry
Scrope first Baron Scrope of Masham, whose mother is said to
have been a daughter of Sir William Roos of Ingmanthorpe. He
served in the field for the first time at the battle of Duplin in
Scotland in 1332, and was present in most of the military expe^
dhum% in the reign of Edward the Third. In 1338 he was a
Commissioner at Array for the West Riding of Yorkshire ;' and in
the same year he accompanied the King to Antwerp, when he
obtained letters of protection.^ He was at the siege of Toumay in
July 1340, and was employed in defending the marches of Scot-
laml in \U\ and 1342.^
Koo» was in Oascony in November 1368 and 1369 :^ on the
Kill Marcli 1373 he was appointed Mayor of Bordeaux ;7 and was
a (^iifiMervator of the truce in Acquitaine in October 1376." On
thu tHHh Hi'ptuniber 1377 he was a Commissioner to treat with the
(^oiiiii of Flanders ;9 and in July 1379 was ordered to treat with
WaWaii (^lunt of St. Paul, then a prisoner of war, as to the con-
ditimis of hi» release.*^ In the 3rd Ric. II. he was examined as a
' lUill of Arms in the pofteision of the Rev. John Newling.
• Mini lh« I'MiiMTee of Roos in Baker's History of Northampton, yol. i. p. 269.
• IttH, Mmm>. i. A30. * FoBdera, ii. p» iv. p. 23.
• lii»l. HcMHi. i. p. 01 1, 027. • Carte's Gascon Rolls, i. 156. ii. 100.
^ ( «rln's Ossooii HoUs, i. 160. ■ Carte*s Gascon Rolls, ii. 118.
• i^srUi's (isacuii liolls, /i. I2i. "* Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 88.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 291
witness in Parliament relative to lands that had belonged to Sir Sib Ran
William de Cantilupe in the county of York, which Thomas de
Boos, his son, claimed from the Earl of Pembroke and Lord
Zouche of Haryngworth. He referred in his testimony on that
occasion to the time when he was SheriiT of Yorkshire and Keeper
of York Castle, but the date is not mentioned.^
On the 10th May 1380, Sir Robert Roos was Lieutenant for
the Marshal of England, and present at Westminster in the Court of
Chivalry when Sir John Annesley accused Thomas Catreton, Esq.
of treason ;^ and was a Commissioner relative to the recent dis-
turbances in England in June following.' Roos was nominated a
Commissioner to admonish the Count of Armagnac to rclum to
the King's allegiance, in April 1383 :* on the same day he was
ordered to treat with Peter King of Arragon ;* and was soon after-
wards appointed a Commissioner to decide upon the points in dis-
pute between Richard the Second and his uncles.^
Neither the date of Sir Robert Roos's decease, the name of his
wife, or of his heir, has been ascertained ; but it is most probable
that his son Thomas, who was of full age in 1380, succeeded to
his property, and was ancestor of Robert Roos of Ingmanthorp,
who was twenty-four years of age in the Sith Hen. VIIL, and
whose daughter and heiress Bridget married Peter Roos of Lax-
ton, Esq. Their son and heir, Gilbert Roos, left Elizabeth his
daughter his heiress, who was the wife of William Thomas, Esq-
in 1635.
Sir Robert Boos of Ingemanthorpe, aged seventy-six, said,
he had known the ancestors of Sir Richard Scrope, because when
he was young and of tender age he recollected well that he saw tbe
father of Sir Richard. He saw Sir Geoffrey Scrope at Antwerp
armed Azure, a bend Or, with a label Argent, and the said Sir
Geoffrey was uncle of the said Sir Richard, and was then of the
King's retinue with ten knights in his company. He also saw Sir
William Scrope, elder brother of the said Sir Richard, so armed
at the siege of Tournay. He said he had been armed since the
battle of Duplin in Scotland ; and that these arms had descended
' Rot. ParL iii. 79, 80. ' Ftedera, iu. p' iii. p. 96.
* Ftedera, iii, p' iii. p. 124
' Carle's GaKOD Rolls, i. 171. " Fudera, iii. p' iii. p. 151.
* Fcedeni, iii. p' iii. p. 150.
i
292
DEPONENTS I\ FAVOUR OF
to Sir Richard in direct line of inheritance and ancestry from the
time of King Stephen without interruption from Sir Robert Gros-
venor or any of his ancestors; but he said he had often heard that
the ancestors of Sir Richard were noble and valiant persons, and
descended from eminent gentlemen [grantz gentils homniez] who
had acquired great honour in their arms, and always peaceably
possessed them from beyond the time of memory.
The arms of Sir Robert Roos of Ingmanthorp were Azure,
three water bougeta Or.'
SIR GERARD GRYMSTON is said to have been the son of
Sir Roger Grymston, of Grymston in the county of York,"^ whose
ancestors were seated at that place at the time of the Conquest.
The Deponent's mother was a daughter of Foulk Constable of
Frysmarshe,' and he was born about the year 1318. It appears
from his deposition that he was present at most of the battles and
expeditions of his time, including the siege of Stirling in 1336,
the battle of Durham in 134€, and the siege of Calais in 1347,
and that he was in the army with which Edward the Third me-
naced Paris in 1360 ; but nothing can be added to this information
from the public records. He married a daughter of Sir John
Baskerville, and left issue William Grymston,^ from whom Sir
Harbottle Grymston,- who was created a Baronet by James the
First, was descended, and who is now represented by the Earl of
Verulam : but male descendants of the Grymston family still, it
is believed, exist.
Sir Gerard Grymston, aged sixty-eight, deposed that he had
seen Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, when the Castle
of Stirling was victualled by the Earl of Warwick, and at the
battle of Durham, and Sir Henry his cousin with his banner at the
> Roll of Anns temp. Edw. III. 8vo, 1829. The folloniDg arms were in the
church of Kirlt Dighion Id Yorkshire, in wliich pariah Ingmanthorp is ailuated, io
Iti64. Id the windows — 1. Azure, three water bougets Or, an annulet for diffe-
rence, lloos. — 2. Roos, difTcrenccd by a label gobono^ Argent and Gules, im-
paling Gules, a inBunch Argent, thereon an annulet, wiihia an orle of rosea of the
second. [Query Acklam.] — 3. Rous, impaling Cobu*h. — 1. Kooa, differenced
by a label gobonne Argent and Gules, impaling Argent, a lion rampanl Ature
[query Fahcondehc oi Duus of Skelton.] In the north part of the chancel was a
tomb with the arms of Roo», differenced by a mullet. Dugdale's Yorkshire
Anas, f.31.33. ^ Vmcent's Essex, f. 283.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 293
siege of Calais armed in the same arms, with a label Argent. And Sin Gkn
at the great chivauchee of the late King before Paris when the truce
was made and peace. In that expeditiun was Sir Richard Scrupe
with the Lord of Richmond, now the Lord of Lancaster, and so
armed ; and Sir Henry Scrope in the same expedition similarly
armed, with a label Argent. He said, he had been armed forty-six
years ; that he had heard from his ancestor.s that the said arms
had descended to Sir Richard from the lime of the Conquest ; and
that Gilbert de Gant, who came with the Conqueror, enfeoffed
William Filz-Roger, ancestor of the said Gerard de Gryraston,
by a charter, to which charter Simon de Scrope is a witness. He
also said, that the said arms had been home without challenge
by Sir Robert Grosvenor, of whom or of his ancestors he had no
knowledge.
The arms of Sir Gerard Grymston were, Argent, on a fess Sable,
three mullets Or, pierced Gules.'
SIR ROBERT NEVILLE. This Knight was the repre- s.e Rob
sentative of the Nevilles of Hornby Castle in Lancashire, a branch
of one of the most illustrious houses in Europe, of which four
members were examined in the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy.
The Depment was the son of Sir Robert Neville by Joan his wife,"
and was born about the year 1336. He served in the army in
Scotland, France, and Spain, and was in the expedition btfore
Paris under Edward the Third in person in the spring of 1360.
In November 1371, he was a Commissioner to treat with the Uuke
of Brittany about the surrender of the town of Becherell.' Neville
was a Knight in Parliament for Yorkshire in 1377,* and was She-
riff of that county in the 3rd Ric. II,* In the next year he
granted an annuity of 10/. to the chapel of St. Stephen's, West-
minster, issuing out of his lands and tenements in Brcrely and
Kirkby super Wharfe, together with the advowson of the church
of Penyston.'' He was a Commissioner of Array for the North
I Roll of Anns in the possession of the Rev. Jolin Newling.
' Harleian MS. 3883. The said Joan was living in ihe 22nd Edw. III. In
9ih Edw. III. the Deponent's grandfallier Robert, son of Robert Neville, succeeded
his nephew John Neville in the lordship of Hornby. Esch. 9 Edw, III. n° 43.
' Fcedera, iii. p' ii. p. 187. ' Lansdowne MS. 229. f. 28.
* Harleian MS. 3882. = Rot. Claua. 4 Ric. II. m. 5.
294 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Robert RidiniT of Yorkshire in 1383-4;^ and in 1393 the King granted
Neville. .
him the manor of Levarton in that county, which had belonged
to Alexander Archbishop of York, then attainted.^ By the ap-
pellation of '^ Mon tres cher bachelier Mons** Robert Nevill**^ he
is mentioned in the Will of John of Gant in February 1397, as
a feoffee of the manor of Bemoldswick in the county of York.^
In the 1st Hen. IV. the Duke of Aumarle, in answer to an accu-
sation in Parliament that he had superseded many persons from
their offices with the view of replacing them with his own favour-
ites, said, that he had not ousted any person excepting Sir Robert
Neville of Hornby, for whom he had substituted Robert de Water-
ton;^ but the situation which he held does not appear. Neville
was a Knight in Parliament for the county of York in the 2nd
Hen. IV. 1400;^ and on the 5th July 1410 he was appointed a
Commissioner of Array for the West Riding of Yorkshire.^
Sir Robert Neville died in 1413,^ aged about seven ty-seven ;
and by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir William de la Pole,^ had
three children : Margaret, who married William Lord Harington,
K.O. ;9 Joan the wife of John Langton,^ and a son. Sir Thomas
Neville, who died in his father^s lifetime, leaving Margaret his
daughter his heir, who was twenty-eight years old at the death
of her grandfather, and then the wife of Thomas Beaufort Earl
of Dorset,^^ afterwards Duke of Exeter. She died without issue in
1458,^^ and her aunt Margaret Lady Harington was found to be
her heir, who is now represented by the Duchess of Buckingham
and Chandos.
Sir Robert Neville, aged fifty, deposed that he had seen Sir
Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, and Sir Henry Scrope
also armed in the said arms with a white label, in Scotland and in
France before Paris, and elsewhere, in presence of the late King
Edward. He also saw Sir Richard in Spain so armed with the
■ Rot. Scoc. 7 Ric. II. m. 4.
» Calend. Rot Pat. p. 228 b. » Nichols's Royal Wills, p. 170.
* Rot. Pari. iii. 449 b. » Cottou MS. Cleopatra, F. iii. f. 19.
* Foedera, iv. p' i. p. 174. t Esch. 1 Hen. V. n<> 23.
* Harleian MS. 3882, and Frost's Notices of Hull, p. 31, where it is said she
was living on the 22nd September 1388.
» Harleian MS. 3882. »» Esch. 1 Hen. V. no 23.
" Her Will was proved in May in that year.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 295
Duke of Lancaster, and many others of his name and lineage simi- Sin
larly armed with differences in divers expeditions and journeys in
which he had served. He had heard from his ancestors that the said
arms belonged to Sir Richard by right of inheritance from beyond
the time of memory, according to common report throughout the
country. He had, he said, been armed twenty-four years, and
never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor or of his ancestors, nor of
any interruption being offered to the Scropes in the use of the
said arms.
The arms of Sir Robert Neville of Hornby were. Argent, a
sal tire Gules.^
SIB JOHN BOSVILLE was the son of John Bosville of s,»
Chete, or Chevet, in the county of York, who died in 1361." He
was born about the year 1322, and appears from his deposition to
have served in most of the wars of the time of Edward the Third,
as he was at the battles of Espagnols-sur-Mer in 1350, and Na-
jara in 1367. and in the army before Paris under the King in
person in 1360. Between the 3rd and 7th Ric, II. he was retained
to serve John of Gant for life in peace or war, and on the 13th
July 1381 was commanded to meet tht Duke of Lancaster at
Berwick with a retinue of one hundred and sixteen men-at-arms
and twenty archers.' In 1385 Bosville was in the army which
invaded Scotland ; and obtained letters of protection in conse-
quence of being about to accompany that prince into Spain in
March 1386.*
The date of his death has not been ascertained, but in 1402
Alice the widow of John Bosville of the county of York, obtained
letters of administration of her husband's effects.* Sir John Bos-
ville is said to have married Constance daughter and heiress of
John Mountney of Stoke in the county of Nottingham,^ (in which
case Alice may have been his second wife,) and by the said Con-
stance to have had a son John Bosville, whose grandson William
Bosville of Chete left two daughters his coheirs ; Elizabeth, who
I Roll of Anna terap. Edw, III. 8vo. 1629.
■ Vincenl'sMS. nOlll.f.lSl. Brooke MS. n° l.f.il,
' Registnim Johannia Duci» LancastriiE. • Ftedera, iii. p' iii. p:^ 194.
' HarleianMS. 805, f.70.
» Vincent's MS. n" 111, f. 151. MS. by J.C. Brooke, n° 1, f,51.
SWf DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
married, firat, Sir John Neville, and, secondly. Sir Thomas Tem-
pest ; and Alice, who married Robert Neville of Ragnell in Not-
tinghamshire, Esq. ; both of which daughters left issue.'
Sir John Bosville, aged sixty-four, deposed that he saw Sir
Richard Scrope at the battle of Espagnols-sur-Mer, and Sir
Henry Scrope so armed, with a white label, and others of his
lineage with differences. He said that the Seropes were reputed
throughout the counties of York and Richmond to have descend-
ed from an ancient line of ancestors; and that at the last expe-
dition of the late King- in France before Paris, he saw there Sir
Richard Scrope so armed, and Sir Henry Scrope with his banner
of the said arms and a label Argent, publicly and notoriously
borne. He had often heard from his ancestors, and from the
ancestors of other knights, that Scrope's ancestors had borne the
said arms from the time of the Conquest. Bosville added that
Sir Richard Scrope was armed in those arms at the battle of
Najara in Spain in presence of the Prince. He had never heard
of any challenge or interruption being offered to the Seropes in
the usage of the said arras, and never heard of Sir Robert Groa-
venor or of bis ancestors until the King made his last expedition
in Scotland.
The arms of Sir John Bosville were. Argent, five fusils con-
joined in fes9 Gules, in chief three martlets Sable,
SIR JOHN CONSTABLE of Halsmam, The house of
Constable of Halsham in Holdemess, from which the Viscounts
Dunbar in Scotland descended, was of considerable antiquity in
the county of York.* John Constable of Halsham' died towards
the end of 1349,* leaving by Albreda his wife, daughter of
Buhner, John his son and heir then twelve years of age,' which
' Vincenfs MS. n" 111. f. ISl. MS. by J. C. Brooke, n" 1. f. 51.
• Douglas Peerage of Scotland by Wood, title Dunbai.
' He 19 usually called Sir John Constable, but it is doubtful if he was ever
knighted ; for on the igth June 1345, he woa pardoned for nol taking the order of
knighthood according to the proclamation, on account of being lame, and he was
apeci ally exempted from recei^ng that dignity without his own consent. Rot. Patent.
19Edw. III.m.e.
' On the 12th SepiembeT 1349, he administered to the efTects of his mother.
Harleian MS. 605, f. 2O0 a. ' Esch. 33 Edw. III. n° 81. Albreda his widow
married secondly John Slurmy. Ibid.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 297
fixes his birth to about 1337, though he is stated to have been only Sir John
forty and upwards in 1386. He served in the army before Paris
in 1360, and in November 1368 obtained letters of general attorney,
being then about to go into Gascony.^ In the 2nd Ric. II. 1378-9,
he was a Commissioner of Array for the East Riding of Yorkshire,*
and again filled that situation in 1383-4.* Sir John Constable was
in the expedition in Scotland in 1385, and is said to have died in
1394.* By Maud daughter of Sir Robert Hilton, he had issue Sir
William Constable, ancestor of the Viscounts Dunbar, whose de-
scendant and representative, Francis Constable, formerly Sheldon,
of Burton Constable, Esq. died in 1821, leaving an only child,
Mary Frances, who was bom in 1793.
Sir John Constable of Halsham, aged forty and upwards, armed
twenty-five years, deposed that he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed
Azure a bend Or, on his body, at the last expedition of King
Edward before Paris, and also saw there Sir Henry Scrope, with
whom he was retained for the said expedition, so armed with a
white label, and with his banner of the same arms publicly borne
in presence of the King and all his host without being challenged
by any one. He said that Sir Richard was then in the retinue
of the Earl of Richmond now Duke of Lancaster, and added, that
in all the wars in which he had been he had seen and known Sir
Richard, or some other of his name and lineage, armed in the said
arms entire, or with differences as branches and cousins of Sir
Richard. He corroborated the statements of former witnesses as
to the tradition about the ancestors of Sir Richard having always
used these arms. He had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or
any of his ancestors, until the dispute began in Scotland.
The arms of Constable of Halsham were, Or, three bars Azure.
SIR GERARD DE LOUND. Of the genealogy of this Sir Gerard
person nothing has been found in the College of Arms. A family
of Lound was seated at Winterton in Lincolnshire, but the pedi-
gree is not traced to an early period in the Heralds' Visitations of
that county. The only inquisition on the death of a person of the
name in the Tower is in the 44th Edw. III. for a John de Lound,
1 Cartels Gascon Rolls, i. 156.
« Rot Patent. 2 Ric. II. p* ii. m. 31. ' Rot. Scoc. 7 Ric. II. m. 4.
* Douglas's Peerage of Scotland by Wood, title Dunbar.
VOL. II. 2 Q
S98 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sift Geeaed conoeniiBg lands in Nortbgevendale in Yorkshire, but no return was
made as to his heir. It appears, however, from an entry on the
Scotch Rolls, that the Deponent was the son and heir of a William
Lound. He was bom in 1332, and seems to have first served in
the field in 1355 on the invasion of France by Edward the Thirds
when the English army were before Blangis in Artois. Towards
the end of November in that year information reached the Eang
that the Scots had taken Berwick, when he immediately embarked
for England, and recaptured that town in January following.
Lound was present on the occasion ; and in April 1358 he received
letters of protection by the description of *^ Grerard son and heir of
William Lound,^' being then about to proceed to Scotland as one of
the retinue of Richard Tempest, Constable of Roxburgh Castle, to
garrison that fortress.^ In 1360 he was in the army before Paris,
and was again in France in 1369 under the Duke of Lancaster, when
the Pais de Caux was ravaged by the English troops. He went
abroad in the retinue of John of Gant King of Castile, in March
1378, when he again received letters of protection,^ and was re-
tained to serve that prince for life between the 3rd and 7th
Kic. 11.^ Sir Oerard served in the expeditions in Scotland in
1383 and 1385, and the last notice of him which has been found
is that he was a witness for Sir Richard Scrope in July 1386.
Sir Oerard de Lound, of the age of fifty-four, armed twenty-
six years, deposed that he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed
Azure, a bend Or, at Blangis at the chivauch^e of the King, in
company with the Earl of Northampton; and from thence, in
consequence of the news the King received of the loss of Ber-
wick, he returned to England, and thence went to Scotland, and
there the said Sir Richard was armed in the same arms. The
King on his march into Scotland left the Earl of Northamp-
ton, his lieutenant, to guard the marches, and the said Sir Richard
in his company was often armed in those arms ; and at the grand
expedition which the late King made before Paris, • he there bore
them publicly in the presence of the Eang, and of all the princes,
dukes, barons, and other lords ; and also Sir Henry Scrope cousin
to the said Sir Richard, armed in the same arms with a label
Argent, and others of his lineage with differences ; and at Balyng-
» Rot Scoc. 32 Edw. III. vol. i. p. 820. • Foedera, iii. p« iii. p. 74.
^ Registrum Johanois Duels Lancastriae.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 297
fixes his birth to about 1337, though he is stated to have been only Sir John
C^ONST A RLE
forty and upwards in 1386. He served in the army before Paris
in 1360, and in November 1368 obtained letters of general attorney,
being then about to go into Gascony.^ In the 2nd Ric. II. 1378-9,
he was a Commissioner of Array for the East Riding of Yorkshire,*
and again filled that situation in 1383-4.' Sir John Constable was
in the expedition in Scotland in 1385, and is said to have died in
1394.* By Maud daughter of Sir Robert Hilton, he had issue Sir
William Constable, ancestor of the Viscounts Dunbar, whose de-
scendant and representative, Francis Constable, formerly Sheldon,
of Burton Constable, Esq. died in 1821, leaving an only child,
Mary Frances, who was bom in 1793.
Sir John Constable of Halsham, aged forty and upwards, armed
twenty-five years, deposed that he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed
Azure a bend Or, on his body, at the last expedition of King
Edward before Paris, and also saw there Sir Henry Scrope, with
whom he was retained for the said expedition, so armed with a
white label, and with his banner of the same arms publicly borne
in presence of the King and all his host without being challenged
by any one. He said that Sir Richard was then in the retinue
of the Earl of Richmond now Duke of Lancaster, and added, that
in all the wars in which he had been he had seen and known Sir
Richard, or some other of his name and lineage, armed in the said
arms entire, or with differences as branches and cousins of Sir
Richard. He corroborated the statements of former witnesses as
to the tradition about the ancestors of Sir Richard having always
used these arms. He had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or
any of his ancestors, until the dispute began in Scotland.
The arms of Constable of Halsham were, Or, three bars Azure.
SIR GERARD DE LOUND. Of the genealogy of this Sir Gerard
person nothing has been found in the College of Arms. A family
of Lound was seated at Winterton in Lincolnshire, but the pedi-
gree is not traced to an early period in the Heralds^ Visitations of
that county. The only inquisition on the death of a person of the
name in the Tower is in the 44th Edw. III. for a John de Lound,
* Carte's Gascon Rolb, i. 156.
» Rot Patent. 2 Ric. II. p* ii. m. 31. ' Rot. Scoc. 7 Ric. II. m. 4.
* I>ouglas*8 Peerage of Scotland by Wood, title Dunbar.
VOL. II. 2 Q
998 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
concerning lands in Northgevendolein Yorkshire, but no return was
made as to his heir. It appears, liowever, from an entry on the
Scotch Rolls, that the Deponent was the son and heir of a William
Lound. He was bom in 1333, and seems to have first served in
the field in 1355 on the invasion of France by Edward the Third,
when the English array were before Blangis in Artois. Towards
the end of November in that year information reached the King
that the Scots had taken Berwick, when he immediately embarked
for England, and recaptured that town in January following.
Lound was present on the occasion ; and in April 1358 he received
letters of protection by the description of " Gerard son and heir of
William Lound," being then about to proceed to Scotland as one of
the retinue of Richard Tempest, Constable of Roxburgh Castle, to
garrison that fortress.' In 1360 he was in the army before Paris,
and was again in France in 1369 under the Duke of Lancaster, when
the Pais de Caux was ravaged by the English troops. He went
abroad in the retinue of John of Gant King of Castile, in March
1378, when he again received letters of protection,^ and was re-
tained to serve that prince for life between the 3rd and 7th
Ric. IL* Sir Gerard served in the expeditions in Scotland in
1383 and 1385, and the last notice of him which has been found
is that he was a witness for Sir Richard Scrope in July 1386.
Sir Gerard de Lound, of the age of fifty-four, armed twenty-
six years, deposed that he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed
Azure, a bend Or, at Blangis at the chivauchce of the King, in
company with the Earl of Northampton ; and from thence, in
consequence of the news the King received of the loss of Ber-
wick, he returned to England, and thence went to Scotland, and
there the said Sir Richard was armed in the same arms. The
King on his march into Scotland left the Earl of Northamp-
ton, his lieutenant, to guard tlic marches, and the said Sir Richard
in his company was often armed in those arms ; and at the grand
expedition which the late King made before Paris, he there bore
them publicly in the presence of the King, and of all the princes,
dukes, barons, and other lords ; and also Sir Henry Scrope cousin
to the said Sir Richard, armed in the same arms with a label
Argent, and others of his lineage witli differences ; and at Balyng-
' Rot Scoc. 32 Edw. III. vol. i. p.aao. ' Fiedera, iii. p' Lii. p. 74.
' Regisirum Johaunia Ducis Lancasirii.
1
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 299
ham Hill, and in the expedition in Caux, and twice in Scotland, «ir (J
the said Sir Richard was so armed, and, when in Scotland, with
his banner. He had heard from old knights and esquires in the
north parts, and especially' from his ancestors, that the ancestors
of Sir Richard had a strong right to bear them, and that tliey had
descended to Sir Richard from the time of the Conquest. He
had never heard of any interruption or challenge being made to
them by Sir Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors, or by any other
person in his name, nor had he ever heard of him or his ancestors
until the commencement of this controverBy.
The arms of Lound of Lincolnshire were, Fretty and abordure.
SIR JOHN MAULEVERER. Pedigrees differ as to the «'« '
parentage of this individual ; but he was probably the son of Sir
Halneth Mauleverer,' It appears from his deposition that he was
bom in 1342, and that he had twice served in the field in Scotland.
Sir John Mauleverer died on the 21st November 1400, and was
buried in the church of Allerton Mauleverer in Yorksliire, where
a marble monument was erected to his memory, on which were
the effigies of himself and his wife. He married Eleanor daugh-
ter of Sir Piers Middleton of Stokeld, and by her had a son, Sir
Halneth Mauleverer,^ ancestor of Sir Thomas Mauleverer,' who
was created a Baronet in August 1641, which dignity became
extinct in 1713.
Sir John Mauleverer, aged forty-four, deposed that he well
knew that the disputed arms belonged to Scrope, for that he was
twice in Scotland with Sir Henry Scrope, cousin to the said Sir
Richard, who was armed Azure, a bend Or, with a white label;
and that Sir Henry was then with the Earl of Northampton, and
his banner of those arms was publicly borne. He had heard from
his father, and valiant knights and esquires now no more, and
never to the contrary, that the ancestors of Scrope had borne those
arms from beyond the time of memory, from the time of the Con-
quest, without being interrupted by Sir Robert Grosvenor or his
ancestors, or by any person in his name.
The arms of Sir John Mauleverer were. Gules, three grey-
bounds current in pale Argent, collared Or.'
' Brooke's Collections for Yorkshire, n" 1. r.236.
2q2
300
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
SIR ROBERT LATON is said to have been the son of a
Robert LatoD who survived his seventieth year, and grandson of
a Sir Thomas Laton, Knight, and Maud his wife, who were living
in the reign of Edward the First.' The anecdote of his father
in his deposition proves that he was an old soldier ; and as a Sir
Thomas Laton oecurs in a Roll of Arms compiled in the reign of
Edward the Third, it is not unlikely that the Deponent was the
son, instead of the grandson, of the above-mentioned Sir Thomas
and Maud. Sir Robert Laton's interesting deposition contains
nearly all the information which has been discovered about him ;
whence it is evident that he had served in most of the wars
of his time. He was living in the 14th Ric. II. 1390-1. in whiuh
year he exchanged some lands in West Laton in Yorkshire by a
deed dated at Melsonby.- By Maud his wife he had a son, John
Laton of East Laton, whose son and heir, John Laton of Harforth.
left Elizabeth his daughter his heir. She married Henry Pudsey
of Barforth, and died in 1424 ;• and her descendant, Pudsey Daw-
son, of Sinnington Manor and Langclifi'e in Yorkshire, Esq. is the
present representative of the Laton family.
Sir Robert Laton, aged fifty-two, armed thirty-two years,
deposed that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend
Or, during all his time, and publicly and notoriously use those
arms in presence of kings, dukes, earls, barons, and other lords,
knights, and esquires, and the said arms had always been held and
reputed to be the arms of Sir Richard Scrope and his ancestors.
He said, he had seen Sir Richard so armed in Scotland in company
with the late King when he attacked and took the castle of Edin-
burgh, and there he saw Sir Henry Scrope with his banner with
the-Earl of Northampton. Afterwards, he saw Sir Richard so
armed under Edward the Third before Paris, and Sir Henry Scrope
similarly armed with a label; and in all the expeditions made by
the Lord of Lancaster and the King the said Sir Richard Scrope
was present armed in his entire arms, and others of his lineage with
differences. He also said, upon the oath which he had taken, that
his father, who was an old man of the age of seventy, and had long
served in foreign wars, and in time of peace at tournaments, com-
' Vinceoi's MS. n° HI. f. 297. A pedigree ii
Ihat his lather's name was Altxandtr.
' Vincent's MS. n" 111. f. 29T.
the Marleian MS. 1487, si
n
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 301
manded him to write in a schedule all the arms which he had ^
learnt from his ancestors, and which they recollected to have be-
longed to kings, princes, dukes, earU, barons, lords, knights,
and enquires, who flourished at the time of the Conquest, among
which he made him write down the arms of Sir Richard Scrope
and several others. He had never heard that the said arms had at
any time become extinct for want of heirs male, or that the arm»
of the Scropes had been challenged ; nor had he ever heard of
Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of his ancestors, before the commence-
ment of this controversy.
The arms of Sir Robert Laton were, Argent, a fess between
six cross crosslets Sable.'
SIR WILLIAM MELTON was the eldest son of Sir Wil- a
liam Melton of Aston in Yorkshire (the nephew of William Arch-
bishop of York) by Joan, sister and eventually sole heiress of
Thomas Lord Lucy,^ and was born about 1339.^ He succeeded
his father in 1362, and seems to have first served in the expedition
in France in 1359, and in the spring of 1360 was in the array be-
fore Paris. In 1369 he was again in France in the expedition
under the Duke of Lancaster, and in 1377 he was commanded to
superintend the conveyance from York to London of four thou-
sand marks which had been paid by the Scotch.* Melton was a
Commissioner of Array for the West Riding of Yorkshire in
1378-9,* 1384, and 1389. In March 1380 he was one of the
mainpernors of Thomas Catreton, who had been accused of treason
by Sir John Annesley.'' In 1383 he was in the army which in-
vaded Scotland, and again in 1385 ; and obtained letters of protec-
tion in January 1386, being then about to accompany John of
Gant to Spain :'' but as he was examined at York in July in the
■ Koll of Arras temp. Edw. III. 8to. 1B30. p. 25, where this coat is altribuled
to Sir Thomna Lalon.
' Pedigree in Baker's Hiatoiy of Noitliamptonsbire, i. 673.
' The loquisitiun on the dcatli of his father makes him to have been bom in
1339; that on the death of his mother (in 1^69), ia 1341; and his deposition,
wherein it is said he wua then forty, in 1346.
* Rot. Scoc, 51 Edw, III. m. I.
» Patent 3 Ric, II. p. 2. m. 31 ; Rot. Scoc. 7 Ric. II. m. 4; 8 Ric. II. m. 10;
and 12 Ric II. m. 6. * Fiedera, iii. p' iii. p. 96.
' Fcedera, iii. p' iii. p. 191.
302 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir William game year, it is nearly certain that he abandoned that intention.
Meiiton. , .
Melton was executor to William Lord Windsor in September
1384, who directed him to sell all his goods for the payment of his
debts and the health of his soul.^ Sir William Melton was found
to be one of the heirs of Maud Lucy, Countess of Northumber-
land, in December 1398, and died in the ensuing year, aged about
sixty.* By a daughter of Everingham he left issue, John,
his son and heir, who was then twenty-two years old, and was the
ancestor of Sir John Melton of Aston, who died in 1545, leaving
Dorothy his daughter his heiress. She married George Baron
Darcy, which title became extinct on the death of his great grand-
son, John, third Lord Darcy, in 1635,* and she is now represented
by the Lords Stourton and Fetre.
Sir William Melton, aged forty, deposed, that he knew the
arms Azure, a bend Or, to be those of Sir Richard Scrope, having
seen him armed therein, and many others of his name and lineage
with differences, in battles and journeys. He saw Sir Richard so
armed in the last expedition of King Edward in France before
Par^s, and in the last expedition of the Duke of Lancaster in
France, and in two expeditions into Scotland, the one under the
Lord' of Lancaster, the other under the King, wherein the said
Sir Richard carried his banner publicly with the said arms thereon.
He said he had often heard his ancestors and other valiant knights
and soldiers say, that Sir Richard had a right to the said arms
by descent, and that his ancestors came with the Conqueror, and
had used the arms from time inmiemorial. He said he had been
armed twenty-four years. He had never heard that Sir Robert
Grosvenor, or any of his ancestors, had challenged the arms in
question, nor did he know any thing of him or his ancestors before
this dispute.
The arms of Sir William Melton were, Azure, a cross patonce
voided Argent.^
Sir John SIR JOHN SAVILE. " That the family of Savile,^ says
Dugdale,^ ^^ hath been of great antiquity, and eminent in the
northern parts of this realm, is evident from sundry testimonies.'"
cc
■ Testamenta Vetusta, i. 117. ' Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 673.
* Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling, and other
authorities. ^ Baronage, ii. 462.
1
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 303
The Deponent was the son of John Savile, Esq. of Savile in Dod- ^
worth in the county of York, by Margery youngest daughter and
coheiress of Henry Rishworth of Rishworth.' He was born be-
fore 1325, and served at the siege of Calais in 1346 and 1317, and
afterwards in Scotland. In February 13^6, by the description of
'* John Savile of Eland,"" he obtained letters of protection, as he
was then going into Gascony in the retinue of the Prince of
Wales,- and he most probably shared in the honours of Poictiers.
In 1367 he accompanied the army into Spain, and was at the
battle of Najara on the 3rd of April in that year.
Savile was appointed Escheator for the county of York in
1374,* and was a Commissioner of Array for the West Riding in
the 2nd, 7th, 8th, and 12tli Ric. II.* He was likewise sheriff of
Yorkshire in the 3rd, 6th, and 11th Ric. II., and knight of the
shire for that county in the 7th and 8th of Ric. II. Between the
3rd and 7th Ric. II. he was retained to servo John of Gant for
life, as well in peace as in war;* and appears to have died about
1390, though the exact time of his decease is not known. By
Isabel daughter and heiress of Sir John Eland of Eland in
Yorkshire, whom he must have married before 1356, as in that
year he is described of Eland, Sir John Savile left issue two
sons : 1st. Sir John Savile of Eland, who was Knight of the Shire
in 1400,^ and Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1401, whose issue failed
on the death of his grand-daughter Isabel Savile ; and 2nd.
Henry Savile, ancestor of the Barons Savile of Eland, and Vis-
counts, Earls, and Marquesses of Halifax.
Sir John Savile, aged sixty and upwards, deposed that he saw
Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, in company with the
Lord of Lancaster in Spain at the battle of Najara; and had
heard that Sir Richard and his ancestors had always borne those
arms according to common rumour throughout the north country :
he never heard of any challenge by Sir Robert Grosvenor or any of
his ancestors, of whom he never heard before this dispute, not-
withstanding that he held lands in the counties of Chester and
' Brooke's Collections for Yorkshire, f. 320.
• Fmdera, iii. p'i. p. 119. ' Rot. Fin. 48 Edw. III. m. 10.
' Pal. 2 Ric. II. p. 3. m. 31. and Rot. Scoc. 7 Ric. II. m. 4; a Ric. 11. m. 10.
and 13 Ric. U. m. 6.
' Registrutn Johannis Ducis I^ncastria.
' Cotlonian MS. Cleopatra, F. iii. f. 19 a.
304
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir John
S A VILE.
Lancaster. He also said, that he saw Sir Henry Scrope armed in
company of the King and with his banner at the siege of Calais,
and in Scotland with the Earl of Northampton, being then armed
in the arms Azure, a bend Or, and a label Argent ; and others
of his lineage with differences.
The arms of Sir John Savile were. Argent, on a bend Sable
three owls proper.
Sib Willi API
Chavncy.
SIR WILLIAM CHAUNCY was the eldest son of Sir
Thomas Chauncy of Skirpenbek in Yorkshire, the descendant of
a very ancient family which came into England at the Conquest.^
His ancestor, Robert Chauncy, he said, married Margaret daugh-
ter of Scrope, who, with his wife, was buried in Skirpenbek
church about the year 1203. This alliance is not mentioned in
the pedigrees of Chauncy, and the only Robert wl^o occurs in it,
is said to have died in 1257.^
Sir William Chauncy was born in 1342, and succeeded his
father about 1382. It is evident from his deposition, that he
served in numerous campaigns, having commenced his career
in arms in his fifteenth year. In the 5th Ric. II. 1381-2, the
King confirmed to him, by the description of " William de
Chauncy Baron of Skirpenbek, cousui and heir of Anfred de
Chauncie,'' in fee, all the lands of Walter de Chauncy in the
county of York, which had been granted by King Henry the First.-
Sir WUliam Chauncy was living in the 22nd Ric. II. 1398-9,
in which year he obtained a licence to enfeoff the manor of Skir-
penbek and other lands in Yorkshire.' The date of his death is
not known, but he was buried at Stepney in Middlesex. By
Elizabeth daughter of Roger Bigot, whom he married before
1357,* he left issue John Chauncy of Gedleston in Hertfordshire,
Esq. which place he acquired by his marriage with Margaret
daughter and coheiress of William Gifford of Gifford in Gedles-
ton,^ from whom Sir Henry Chauncy, the earliest historian of
that county, was descended.
* Clutterbuck's Hist, of Herts, ii. 400. * Caleod. Rot. Patent, p. 206.
* Calend. Inquis. Post Mortem, iii. p. 254. £sch. 22 Ric. II. n° 76.
^ Thomas CbauDcy gave twenty marks for licence to enfeoff William his eldest
son, and Joan daughter of Roger Bigot, of lands in Thoralby and Skirpenbek,
CO. York. A** 31 Edw. III. Rot. Grig. ii. 246.
1
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 305
Sir William Chauncy, aged forty-four, deposed that Sir Richard Si
Scrope had a right to the arms Azure, a bend Or, The Depo-
nent said, that he had been armed for thirty years in the wars
of France, Brittany, and Normandy, in the old wars in the
kingdom of France, and in the new wars also ; and that he never
saw any other man bear those arms entire excepting Sir Rich-
ard Scrope, or do bo much honour to the said arms as he and
those of his blood and lineage had done. He said, that he saw
Sir Richard armed in them before Paris, in presence of the King
and of all his lords, openly and publicly, and the said Sir Richard
was then of the retinue of the Earl of Richmond, and in the King's
battle; and Sir Henry Scrope was also in that expedition armed
in the same arms with a label Argent and with his banner, in
presence of the King during that whole expedition ; and others of
his lineage were also so armed with differences, and in the expe-
dition in Caux with the Lord of Lancaster, and previously at
Balynghani Hill; and the deponent was in the retinue of Sir
Henry Scrope, and under his banner. He also said, that the said
arms devolved to the said Sir Richard by descent from the time
of the Conquest. Sir William Chauncy further stated, that Robert
Chauncy, his ancestor, married Margaret, one of the daughters
of Scrope, who lie buried in the church of Skirpenbek, and upon
the tomb of the said Margaret there are engraven the arms of'
her husband De Chauncy, on a banner Gules, a cross patee Argent,
and on a chief Or a leopard Azure; and the other moiety of the
banner had the arms of Scrope, Azure, a bend Or. It was, he said,
written in a chronicle in the church of Skirpenbek, where they are
buried, that the same Robert Chauncy was then Baron of Skirpen-
bek ; and since their burial a hundred and eighty-three years have
elapsed. The Deponent added, that in no place where he had
been armed, nor in any place during peace, had he ever heard of
Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of any of his ancestors, luitil this dispute
began in Scotland.
The arms of Sir William Chauncy, as he himself described
them, were Gules, a cross patee Argent, on a chief Or, a lion
passant Azure.
306 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
SIR JOHN HOTHOM. The family of Hotfaom was |eated
at Scorbrough in Yorkshire as early as the reign of Edward the
First. Sir John Hothom of that place married Maud daughter
and coheiress of Sir Robert Hilton, Lord of Swyne, by Mar-
garet daughter of Marmaduke Baron Thweng, Lord of Kilton
Castle ; and their Bon, Sir John Hothom, was found to be one of
tite heirs of Thomas de Thweng, his mother's uncle, and thirty
years of age in 1374,* which would fix his birth to the year 1344,
a date which agrees with the statement that he was forty-five in
1386. That he was a soldier, and served in many campaigns, is
shown by his deposition ; but the only proof in records of bis
being in the army is, that in 1369, at which time be was a Knight,
he received letters of protection and general attorney, in ccmae-
quence of being abroad in the King''s service.* Sir John Hothom
spears to have lived until 1413,* and by Winifred daughter
of Sir William Bruse of Pickering,* to have had a son. Sir
John Hotbom, who was twenty-eight years old at his fother^s
decease.^
Sir John de Hothom, aged forty-five, deposed, that he saw Sir
Richard Scrope armed with the arms Azure, a bend Or, in the last
expedition which King Edward made in France, and that he also
saw there Sir Henry Scrope, cousin of Sir Richard, so armed,
with a label Argent, and with his banner of the said arms publicly
borne throughout the host. He had always beard that those arms
appertained to the said Sir Richard and his ancestors, as he was
told by his ancestors, and old knights and esquires, and other
valiant soldiers now deceased. He said he had been armed twenty-
four years and upwards, and in all the expeditions and wars in
which he had served, he had seen Sir Richard, or some other of
his name and lineage, armed in those arms, either entire or with
difierences, as branches of Sir Richard, who, with all his ancestors
and cousins, had peaceably enjoyed them in ell tbe wars of King
Edward and of the present King, as he had often heard from his
ancestors in his youth. He never heard of any interruption in the
use of the said arms given by Sir Robert Grosvenor or any of his
' Each. 4S Edw. III. n" i
' Esch. 1 Hen. V. n» 35.
* Esch. 1 Hen. V. n» 35.
> Carte's Gatcon Rolls, ii. 99.
' Brooke's MS CoUectiona for Yorkshire, f. 189.
SIR RICIURD SCROPE. 307
ancestors, of whom he never heard until the commencement of
this dispute.
The arms of Sir John Hotliom were, Or, on a bend Sable,
three mullets Argent voided Gules.'
SIR THOMAS RERESBY was the son of Thomas Reresby S'«J«'
of Thribergh in Yorkshire, Esq. by Cicely daughter of Richard,
and sister and coheiress of John Gotham of Brinsforth in thai
county,- and was bom about the year 1326.
His deposition proves that the greater part of his life was
passed in military expeditions; and it affords some interesting in-
formation respecting many of them. Sir Thomas Reresby mar-
ried Lucy daughter of John Sheffield, Esq. and by her had four
sons ; Thomas, Francis, Edmond, and James ; and a daughter,
Judith, who married Richard Symmes of Bamsley.- Sir Thomas
Reresby, the eldest son, died in 1439, and was the ancestor of the
family who entered their pedigree at the Visitation of Yorkshire
in 1584."
Sir Tliomas Reresby, aged sixty and upwards, said that he
had seen Sir Richard Scrope always armed in the arms Azure, a
bend Or, and others of his blood, some on banners and others
armed in them with differences; that he was retained with Sir
Henry Scrope for the expedition by sea, when the Prince of
Wales first went into Guyenne, and the said Sir Henry was with
his banner with the Earl of Northampton ; that the late King
Edward kept the sea at that time with the deceased Duke of Lan-
caster, and with his sons the Earl of Richmond, the Lord Lionel,
the Lord Edmond of Langley, and others, amongst whom Sir
Henry Scrope was many times armed Azure, a bend Or, with a label
Argent ; that Sir Richard was also so armed before Paris, in the ex-
pedition of the late King ; and when he and his cousins were armed,
they always used these arms and no other, and their ancestors before
them, as he had heard his ancestors say; and his ancestors heard
it from their ancestors, that the said arms have been continually
' Roll of Arras temp. Ed«f. III. Bvo. 1829.
• Brooke's MS. CoUections, f. 304. Vincent's MS. nMlO. f.44. Glovar's
Visitation of Yorkshire, f. 56. In the Ilarleiau MS. 14ST, f. S40, the fiuhet of
the Deponent is called a Knight.
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308 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
and peaceably used by them, as well in tournaments during peace
as in wars, they liaving descended to Sir Richard Scrope from
the time of the Conquest, and he had never heard to the contrary.
The Deponent could not say who was the first ancestor of Sir
Richard that bore the said arms, it being beyond the memory of
any living; person. He added that he never heard of the said arms
being challenged by Sir Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors, or by
any person in his or their name, though he had been armed
thirty-nine years at many celebrated places in the time of the late
King in France, Gascony, Brittany, and Scotland, and never
heard of the ancestors of Grosvenor, or of any interruption made
by them to the bearing of the said arms.
The arms of Sir Thomas Reresby were, Gules, on a bend
Argent, three crosses flory or patee Sable.'
■11
SIR THOMAS ROKEBY was the representative of an
ancient Yorkshire family, which was seated at Rokeby at an early
period, and has been commemorated in a poem by the most dis-
tinguished writer of the present age as
" Rolceby'a Lorda, of nifulial hme."
The Deponent was the son of Sir Robert Rokeby of Rokeby, and
in 1356 was found heir to his uncle Sir Thomas Rokeby, the
celebrated Justiciary of Ireland. He had been previously known
by the appellation of '* the nephew,'" and may be presumed to
have been bom about 1310, as he says his birth occurred four
years before the battle of Stirling, which was fought on Midsum-
mer Day 1314, and that he had been armed more than sixty years.
It is evident that his career was a very active one ; and besides
stating that he had served in numerous expeditions, he says that
he was at the battle of Durham in 1346. The public records,
however, present little information about him. He is supposed to
have accompanied his uncle into Ireland about 1350 :* in October
1355 he received letters of protection, being then out of the realm
' Heralds* Visilations, and a Roll of Anns of the reign of Edw. III. 8to. 1829;
but in theKoll of Anns in the possession of the Rev. John Nenling, a Sir Thomas
Reresby is said to have borne Gules, on a bend Argent, three mutUlt pirrcaiqf
thtjield
' (Economia Rokebeionim, in the Retrospective Review, N. S. vol. ii.
p. 477—490.
1
SIR RICIUHD SCROPE. 309
in the King's service,' and was a Commissioner of Array in the Sm Taani
North Riding of Yorkshire in 1379.* Nothing has been discover-
ed respecting his deatli, marriage, or issue.
Sir Thomas de Rokebj, bom four years before the battle of
Stirhng, armed sixty years and upwards, said the arms Azure, a
bend Or, belonged to Sir Richard Scrope, whom he saw so armed
at the battle of Durham. He had heard from his ancestors that
these arms have pertained to the said Sir Richard and his pro-
genitors by right line of inheritance, and never heard to the con-
trary; that the said Sir Richard was lineally descended from an
ancient family and from nobles, from time imniemorial, Sir Rich-
ard's ancestors having always used the said arms as ancient lords
and knights since the Conquest. Ue said that Sir Richard was
so armed in presence of the King of England before Paris,
in presence of the Prince, in presence of the Duke of Lancas-
ter, in presence of Earls and Barons, and in Scotland at the burn-
ing of Dumfries. The Deponent added, that he had seen Sir
Henry Scrope armed in Scotland in the same arms with a label
Argent; and also that he saw Sir William Scrope, elder brother
of the said Sir Richard, his body armed Azure, a bend Or, in
company of the King at the siege of Vannes in Brittany, and
divers others of his lineage bearing the same arms with differ-
ences, the which amis have been borne by the said Sir Richard
and his ancestors, according to common report, from time imme-
morial, without interruption from Sir Robert Grosvenor or any of
his name and ancestry, of whom he never heard until the present
dispute.
The arms of Sir Thomas Rokeby were. Argent, a chevron be-
tween three rooks Sable,'
SIR THOMAS BOYNTON. This Knight was the repre- SirThd»,
sentative of a very ancient family seated at Acklam in Yorkshire,
and was the eldest son of Sir Walter Boynton, whose grandfather
William Boynton married Alice the daughter of Ingelram Mon-
ceaux, in the reign of Edward the First.' The Deponent was
■ Carta's Gascon Rolls, ii. 59. < Roi. Pat. 2 Kic. II, p. 3, m. 31 d.
' Roll of Arms temp. Edw. III. 8vo. 1629.
• Eich. 1 1 Hen. IV. a" 37. Each. 3 Hen. VI, n" 40. WhiWker's Ilisiory of
Richmondshire, i. 76. Brooke's MS. CoUeclions, f. 46.
I
810 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUB OF
SiK Thohai born about 1346, and served in the wars on mious ocaeioDs, as
irell in France as with the Teutonic knights against tbe infidels in
Prussia. He received letters of protection and of general attorney
in 1375, being then in the King's service abroad ;' and «as a Com-
missioner of Array iar the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1379.*
Sir Thomas Boynton died in 1308, leavii^ by Katberioe hia wife,
the daughter and ccJieiress of OeofiFrey Rosella, second son of Sir
William Rosella, ^ Thomas Boynton his son and heir,' who^ by
his vill dated in 1402, ordered his body to be buried in the church
of Acklam, and mentioned in that document Henry hia son and
heir ; his son Christopher ; Mai^aret his wife, and John Conyers,
brother of the said Margaret.* The present heir male of the De-
ponent is Sir Francis Boynton, Bart.
Sir Thomas de Boynton, aged forty, armed ei^teen years,
said he had seen Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, and
many of his cousins with difierences ; and that he saw Sir Richard
■o armed with my Lord of Lancaster in Caux. He saw also Sir
Geoffrey Scrope, son and heir of Sir Henry Scrope, mterred at
Konigsberg in Prussia, under the said arms with s difference.
He had heard from many valiant and ancient knights now deceased,
that the said arms had descended to Scrope by ii^ritance from
beyond the time of memory, who had heard that Sir Richard, his
ancestors and cousins, had peaceably and publicly borne the said
arms in 'many great battles and journeys in presence of the Kii^,
the Prince, dukes, and other great lords, on banners, pennons, and
coat armour, without challenge or interruption, until the com-
mencement of this dispute in Scotland. He never heard of Sir
Robert Orosvenor, or of bis ancestors, nor what arms they bore, or
ought to bear.
The arms of Sir Thomas Boynton were, Or, a fess between
three crescents Gules.*
SIB ROBERT PLUMPTON. The ancient famfly of which
this knight was the representative faad been seated at Plnmpton
in Yorkshire for many generations. Hia father Sir William
' Carte'i Gascon RoDs, u. tl4. ' Pat. 2 Ric.II. p. 2. m. 31 d.
' Esch. llHea.rV. n'ar. Eadi. 3 Hen. VI.in>40.
• Harleian MS. 805, f. 63 b.
* RoU of Anns in the possessioD of the Rev. John ITewling.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 311
Plumpton was twice married : first to Alicia daughter and heiress s
of Sir Henry Beaufitz ; and secondly to Christiana Monasby, or
Mowbray,' widow of Richard de Emeldon ;' but pedigrees differ
as to which of these women was the Deponent's mother, though it
is most probable that he was the issue of the first marriage.'
Sir Robert was bom about 1341, and appears from his deposi-
tion to have repeatedly served in the wars of his time. He was in
the King's fleet in 1372, and was permitted to return to Enghind,
on account of a severe illness, with his esquire and two valets.*
In May 1387 he was appointed Lieutenant of the forest of Knares-
borough,' and died in the 8th Hen. IV. 1406-7.* He was twice
married : first to Isabella daughter of Henry first Lord Scrope of
Masham, who was born in 1337,^ and died before 1399 ; and
secondly to Isabella de Kirkswold, who took to her second husband
Sir Nicholas Middleton.' ' By Isabella Scrope, Sir Robert had
a large family. Sir William Plumpton, their eldest son, joined
the conspiracy of his uncle Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York,
and shared that prelate's fate, he having been beheaded at York
on the 8th June 1405.^ By Alice, who died in 1+23, daughter
and coheiress of John Gisburne, citizen and merchant of York, he
had eight children; namely, Robert; Thomas and Bryan, who
both died without issue; Richard, who made his will in 1143;
' VinccDt'sMS. n"liO,f. 31. Visitation ofYorkahire, A" 166S.
' She died in 1364. Esch. 38 Edw. III. n" 36.
' Pedigree of Plumpton in the Towneley MSS.
* Sex Majori et Ballivis rill» de Rye ac universia (t singulis Vic. Majoi. Sk.
Salutem Sec Quod cum fidelis h dilectus nosier Robeitus de Plompton chivaler,
postquam in obsequlum nostrum cum flotA nostra marc fuisset ingressus, ingravem
in&nnitalem aubito incident, sic quod ulterius In viagium super mare labgrare
minime aufHcicbal, et quod idem Robertua apud diclam villam de la Rie occaaione
saiiitatis recuperanda: amplicuit, prout ipsum ex necessnrio oportebat, sicut per
litems Simotiis Burgh conslabularii caatri RofTcn. coram nobis in cancellario Dostio
oitensas plenius potent apparere : Nos volentea pro securilate aua vobia manda-
mus, quod ipse Robertua cum Jahaune Hetoo annigero suo & duobus valectii
auis u dicta villa de la Rie ad partes suas proprias infra regnum noslium Anglia
redirc, el annatur. baraeaiir et les suas secura ducere libere permittatis. Dat.
viceaimo secundo die Septembris a" 46 Edw. III. 1 372 — Copied from the Plumpton
Cartulary in the Towneley MSS.
' Escheat, 8 Hen. IV. n" 15.
' See her monumenial inscription in page 119 antea.
' See a copy of bii epitaph in page 130 aniea.
31:2
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
George, who was rector of Bingham; Joan, who died before her
mother without issue ; Katherine, who was living unmarried id
1443; and Isabella, who married Stephen dc Thorpe of Gowsill,
Esq. on the 10th March 14^.^ Sir Robert Plumpton, the eldest
BOD of Sir William and Alice Gisburne, was found heir to his
grandfather Id the 8th Hen. IV., at which time he was twenty-
four years old, and was the luicestor of Robert Plumpton of
Plumpton, who was of full age when the pedigree was entered
at the Heralds' Visitation of Yorkshire in 1665.
Sir Robert Plumpton, aged forty-five years, deposed -that
be had seen Sir Richard Scrope with the arms Azure, a bend
Or, aod his cousins so armed with differences; that he saw
Sir Richard armed in these arms entire, and Sir Henry Scrope
with the same arms differenced by a white label publicly home
on his banner in France, before Paris and elsewhere, in presence of
the late noble King and other great lords of England. He saw
also the said Sir Richard twice in Scotland armed in the same
arms, and with his banner, in presence of the King and the Duke
of Lancaster; and in all the expeditions and journeys in which the
Deponent had been for the twenty-four years during which he had
been armed, he had seen the said Sir Richard or his cousins armed
in like manner with differences. The Deponent further said, that
the arms in question belonged of right to the said Sir Richard,
having descended to him from his ancestors, as he had heard from
bis ancestors, and as fully appeared by the tombs of ancestors of
the said Sir Richard who lie interred in the Abbey of St. Agatha
with those arms over them. He added, that Sir Richard and his
ancestors had been in possession of these arms from the time of
the Conquest, without interruption from Sir Robert Grosvenor, or
any other of his name, as he had heard from many valiant knights,
and as common fame testified.
The arms of Sir Robert Plumpton were. Azure, five fu^ls
conjoined in fess Or, each charged with an escallop Gules.^
SIR JOHN WARDE. It is presumed that this witness was
the son of Thomas Warde of Middleton in Yorkshire, who died in
I Pedigree in the Towneley MSS.
* Roll of Anns in tbe possessioD of the Rev. John Newling, and Heralds'
Visitations of Yorluhire.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 313
1350, leaving John his son eighteen years old,' though this would ^
make the said John fifty-four instead of forty-six in 1386. He
says, however, that he was then " more" than forty-six, and as
the deponents were not particular as to a few years in stating
their ages, the discrepancy does not negative his identity. Very
little is known of the family of Ward e of Yorkshire: it appears
from Sir John's deposition, that his ancestors held the manor of
Gynendale in that county, but the only property mentioned in
the Inquisition on Thomas Warde's decease in 1350, is that of
Middleton. It is nearly certain that he was the John Warde
who is described of "Garton," in Yorkshire in 1371, ■ but there is
nothing to shew that he was the person of that name who is men-
tioned in other records of the fourteenth century.
Sir John Warde, of the age of forty-six and upwards, deposed,
that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope armed in the arms Azure, a
bend Or, in Scotland, in the expedition of the Lord of Lancaster,
and in the last expedition of the King in Scotland ; and also that he
was during half a year retained with Sir William Scrope, son of the
said Sir Richard, in Gascony, and there often saw the said Sir
William armed in the same arms with a label. He said that he
had a chamber in a manor house called Gynendale, where the
arms of Scrope are set up and depicted on the wall, in which
chamber were also the arms of the Lord Neville, of the Lord
Percy, of the Lord Clifford, and others, which had been in the
said chamber for one hundred and sixty years, as the Deponent's
father told him, He added that the said arms belonged of right
to Sir Richard Scrope by lineal descent and inheritance from the
time of the Conquest, as his father informed him, and as he had
heard from many knights and esquires then deceased; and that
Sir Richard and his ancestors had peaceably enjoyed the said arms
without interruption by Sir Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors
from beyond the time of memory.
The arms of Sir John Warde were Azure, a cross patee Or,'
' Esch. 24 Edw. III. n" 108. ' Rot. Orig. u. 317.
» In a Roll of Anns of ihe reign of Edw. II. (8vo. 1B!8) this coat is atlri-
buled lo a Sir Simon Warde of Yorkshire, bul a line is drawn through the name
in the MS. The same anns are assigned lo Sir Simon Warde, in the Roll of ihe
reign of Edw. III. Bvo. 1829. In a MS. Collection by Glover of the arms of the
Knights of Yorkshire who served in Scotland with Edward tbe First, the coat
VOL. II. 2 S
314 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Pv^fx'*'"''' SIR RANDOLF PY60T was the son of Geofirey Pygot,
and grandson of Sir Randolph Pygot of Melmoreby and Carleton
in the county of York, and was bom before 1340.^ No other par-
ticulars of his life have been ascertained than what may be gleaned
from his deposition, whence it appears that he occasionally served
in the 6eld.
Sir Randolph Pygot married Joan, who was living in the
6th Hen. IV., daughter and heiress of John de Clotheram of
Clotheram, senior, and by her had Sir Geoffrey Pygot of Clo-
theram, father of Sir Randolph Pygot, who was living at Clotheram
in the 10th Hen. VI.^
Sir Randolph Pygot, of the age of forty-six years, deposed
that he had been armed twenty years, and had seen Sir Richard
Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, in company of the Lord of Lan-
caster at Balyngham Hill ; and that he also saw him so armed at
the burning of Dumfries in Scotland, for he was there under the
banner of the said Sir Richard, and in the expedition of the Lord
of Lancaster in Scotland. He was likewise in the late expedition
in Scotland with the King, and many of Sir Richard's name and
lineage were armed in like manner with differences, in divers
expeditions and journeys in which he had served. He had heard
from his ancestors, and they from their ancestors, that the said
arms had descended to Sir Richard by descent from beyond the
time of memory, and that they had always peaceably enjoyed the
same. He had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor or of his
ancestors until this debate commenced. He said moreover, that
he had seen monuments of the ancestors of the said Sir Richard
in abbeys painted as knights with these arms,^ and also paintings
in glass in the windows of abbeys, priories, cathedrals and other
churches throughout his country.
The arms of Sir Randolph Pygot were. Sable, three pickaxes
Argent.'
attributed to Warde is Azure, a cross pat^e Or within a bordure Argent.
Harleian MS. 1407.
» Glover's Visitation of Yorkshire in 1584, f. 138.
' " Depeyntez en chevalrotz des ditz armez.^'
' Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling, and Heralds'
Visitations.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 315
SIR EDMUND DE KYLYNGWYKE. The name of this ^'^\^°^J"^;;
individual has not been found in any other record, excepting the
Scrope and Grosvenor Roll. A family of Kylingbeke was seated
at Chapel Allerton in the parish of Leeds in Yorkshire, but no
Sir Edmund is mentioned in it.
Sir Edmund de Kylyngwyke, agetl forty-two, said that Sir
Richard Scrope had a riffht to the arms Azure, a bend Or, by
right of inheritance; that he had heard from old knights and
esquires then deceased, that Scrope's ancestors had always used
and publicly borne the said arms, and never heard to the contrary.
He added, that he had been armed eighteen years, and in all
journeys and expeditions in which he had served, he had seen and
known Sir Richard armed in the said arms, or others of his name
and lineage with differences as branches of his family, peaceably,
and without interruption or denial by Sir Robert Grosvenor or
any other person.
SIR RALPH EVRE, whose name is variously spelt in re- Sm Ralph
cords, IvRE, YvER, EvRE, Et:vR, EwERE, and Eire, was a person
of some consideration, and the representative of an ancient family.
Sir Ralph was the son of Sir John de Evre,' and was born about
1350. In February 1378 he was abroad in the retinue of Richard
Earl of Warwick, and consequently received letters of protection.'^
It appears from his deposition, that he served in the campaigns in
Scotland under the Duke of Lancaster in 1383, and under the
King in person in 1385. He was a commissioner to demand com-
pensation from the Scotch for their attempts to break the truce
of Lenlingham in June 1390,^ and was summoned from the bi-
shoprick of Durham to attend a council on the morrow of the
Assumption 1401.* Evre was employed as a Commissioner on the
following numerous occasions: in March 1403 to determine the
controversy between the retinue of Ralph Earl of Westmoreland,
and Henry Earl of Northumberland and Henry Percy, as to
their respective rights to some Scotch prisoners taken at the battle
of Hambledon ;' of Array in the counties of York and Northum-
' Vincent's MSS. n" 20. f. 3; and n" 23. f. 29. and a pedigree by Glover,
Somerset Hemld.
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 124, > Fiedera, iii. p' iv. p. 61.
• Cotton MS. Cleopalra, F. iii. f. 19 a. ^ Fffldeta, iy. p' i. p. 41.
316 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib Ralph berland, to repress the rebellion of Henry Earl of Northumber-
land on the 22nd July 1403 ; ^ to treat with the King of Scotland
in September in the same year for a truce ;^ again to treat with that
sovereign as to a final peace, and for the ransom of Murdac Stewart
son of the Duke of Albany, and of Archibald Earl of Douglas,
prisoners of Henry the Fourth, on the 26th June 1404,' and
5th March 1405 ;* to receive the fines levied upon those persons
who had participated in the rebellion of the Earl of Northumber-
land in April following,* and again in April 1408;^ to treat with
Robert Duke of Albany the Regent of Scotland, about the
prorogation of the truce with that kingdom in March 1407;"^ of
Array for the North Riding of Yorkshire in July 1410 and May
1416 ;® and to treat for the ransom of Murdac son of Robert Duke
of Albany, in exchange for Henry Percy, the renowned " Hot-
spur,'' grandson of Henry Earl of Northumberland, on the 9th
December 1415,^ which is the last notice that has been found of
him ; and as he must then have been upwards of sixty-five, he pro-
bably retired into private life after the execution of that mission.
Evre was also Sheriff of Northumberland and Governor of New-
castle upon Tyne in the 13th and 21st Ric. II. and Sherifi^ of
Yorkshire and Constable of York Castle in the 15th and 19th
Ric. 11.10
Sir Ralph Evre married, first, before 1377, Isabel daughter
and eventually coheir of Sir Adomar de Atholl, brother of David
de Strabolgi Earl of Atholl, as in that year the manor of Felton
in the county of Northumberland was settled upon Adomar
de Atholl and the heirs male of his body ; in default of which
to Isabel his daughter, wife of Ralph de Evre ; with remain-
der to Mary, the other daughter, who married Robert de Tlsle."
By the said Isabel, Evre had an only child Katherine, who mar-
ried Sir John Pudsey Lord of Bolton,^ who is now repre-
• FoBdera, iv. p* i. p. 51. » FoBdera, iv. p* i. p. 56.
3 Foedera, iv. p' i. p. 68. * Foedera, iv. p* i. p. 77.
• Foedera, iv. p' i. p. 80. « Foedera, iv. p* i. p. 128.
' Foedera, iv. p' i. p. 112. • Foedera, iv. p' i. p. 174. p* ii. p. 124.
• Foedera, iv. p* i. p. 151.
1« Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 385. on the authority of the Fine Rolls.
•' Rot. Patent. 50 Edw. III. p. 1. m. 4.
" Vincent's MSS. n** 20. f. 3. and n* 23. f. 29. and pedigree by Glover, So-
merset Herald.
1
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 317
sented by Pudsey Dawson of Sinnington Manor, and LangclifFe p" ^*'-
in the county of York, Esq. Sir Ralph married, secondly, Ka-
therine second daughter and coheir of Sir William de Aton, by
whom he had a son Sir William de E'vre,' who on his father's
decease in 1422 was found to be twenty-six years of age.* He
was at the battle of Agincourt in the retinue of Lord Filz Hugh,'
whose daughter Maud he married ; ' and was ancestor of William
Evre, who was created Baron Evre by Henry the Eighth.'
Sir Ralph de Evre, aged thirty-six and upwards, deposed
that he had been armed eighteen years, and hod seen and known
Sir Richard Scrope armed in tiie said arms on two occasions in
Scotland, on banner, pennon, and coat armour, and several others
of his name and lineage so armed with differences. He had also
seen Sir Henry Scrope armed in those arms with a label Argent,
and on his banner, at Calais. He had, he said, heard from his
ancestors that the said arms had descended to Sir Richard Scrope
from his ancestors, and been peaceably enjoyed by them from time
immemorial, and without cliallenge by Sir Robert Grosvenor or
his ancestors, of whom he had never heard until the commence-
ment of this debate.
The arms of Sir Ralph Evre were, Quarterly Or and Gules,
on a bend Sable, three escallops Argent.*
SIR ROBERT CONYERS was the representative of an ^'^^'^
ancient family, and inherited Hornby Castle in the county of
York.* He was born about 1325, and appears to have been the
Robert Conyers who married Joan niece of William Melton Arch-
bishop of York in 1333, which marriage that Prelate purchased of
Sir Robert Conyers, Knight, the uncle or grandfather of the said
Robert, for sixty marks.^
Before his twentieth year Sir Robert was engaged in the
King's service in the field, and appears to have been present in
most of the expeditions of the reign of Edward the Third ; but the
only battle which he particularly mentions is the memorable sea-
fight with the Spaniards near Winchelsea in 1350. Inl379orl380
' Vicicent'8MSS.no20.f.3.n''23.f. 29. and pedigree by Glover, Somerset Herald.
' Esch. 10 Hen. V. u" 3fl, ' History of the Battle of Agiocouri.
* Vincent'aMSS, n'ao.f. 3; and noas.f.ag.
* Glover's Visitation of Yorkshire in 1584, and Glover's Collectanea marked
A. in the College of Arms. ' Haileian MS. 803, f. 188.
318 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Robert jje was a Commissioner of Array for the North Riding of York-
CONYERS* , ,
shire,^ and the latest notice of him is his being a witness for Sir
Richard Scrope. He married, according to the best pedigrees
of Conyers, Juliana daughter and heiress of William Percy of
Ormesby ; but this statement does not agree with the assertion
that his wife^s name was Joariy niece of the Archbishop of York,
unless the said Joan died young, and that Juliana Percy was his
second wife. Sir Robert had issue John Conyers of Ormsby,
his son and heir, who seems to have died in his father*s lifetime,
and left a son Sir Robert Conyers, who was living in the 14th
Ric. XL, which explains the reason of the Deponent being styled
^^ the elder.*" Anne, his daughter and heiress, married James
Strapgways.
Sir Robert Conyers the elder, of the age of sixty-one years
and upwards, armed forty-three years, deposed that he saw Sir
Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, and that he had publicly
and commonly borne those arms ; that he saw him so armed at the
battle of £spagnols sur Mer and in company of the Earl of War-
wick ; that he had seen and knpwn divers others of his blood and
lineage armed in the said arms with differences in divers battles
and journeys in which he had served ; that in his youth he often
heard from his ancestors and valiant men of arms now no more,
that those arms had descended to the said Sir Richard from his an-
cestors, who came in with the Conqueror; and that they had always
peaceably possessed the said arms from beyond the time of me-
mory. He never heard of any interruption or challenge made to
these arms, and never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor until the last
expedition in Scotland with the King.
Sir Robert Conyers^ arms were Azure, a maunch Or, charged
with an annulet Sable.^
SirThoma. sir THOMAS MERKYNGFELD. Pedigrees differ ma-
terially as to the filiation of this Deponent,^ though they agree in
stating that he married Dionisia, widow of Sir Henry Soothill, that
' Pat. 2 Ric. II. p. 2. m. 31 d.
' Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling.
' Brooke, Somerset Herald, gives two pedigrees of Markenfeld in his Collec-
tions for Yorkshire. According to one, the Deponent was the son of Sir Ninian
Markenfeld and father of Sir Thomas Markenfeld. According to the other, he was
^
SIR RICHARD SCBOPE. 319
he was buried at Rippon, and was the ancestor of a knightly family Sm
of some consideration in Yorkshire. His descendant, Thomas
Markenfeld, married, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, Eliza-
beth daughter of John Lord Scrope of Masham, and the great
nephew of the said Thomas, of the same name, was executed for
high treason in the 12th Elizabeth, he having joined the rebellion
of the Earl of Northumberland.
Sir Thomas Merkyngfeld, aged thirty-nine and upwards, said
he had been armed twenty years and upwards, and saw Sir Ri-
chard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or» at Balyngham-hill, and
in Caux in Normandy, and twice in Scotland, where his banner
was publicly borne. He also saw Sir Henry Scrope at Calais
with his banner, when he was Governor of Guisnes, armed in those
arms with a white label, and several of his cousins and lineage so
armed with differences. He said that, according to common report
throughout his country, the said arms belonged of right to Sir
Richard Scrope, who iiad inherited them by descent. He had
heard from his ancestors that Sir Richard was descended from
very old ancestry, being descended from Robert de Gant at the
time of the Conquest, the which Gant was one of the Conqueror's
great lords. He never heard of any challenge or interruption
being given to Sir Richard Scrope in the usage of these arms;
and never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of any of his ancestors,
until this debate.
The arms of Sir Thomas Merkyngfeld were, Argent, on a bend
Sable, three bezants.'
SIR NICHOLAS MIDYLTON. Though a soldier who Sm
had seen much service, and the representative of an ancient family,
little besides a few genealogical facts has been found respecting
this Deponent. He was born about 1348, and was the son and
heir of Sir Thomas Midylton of Stockeld in Yorkshire, by Eliza-
beth daughter of Sir Henry Grammary, of which property, as well
as of Midylton and Stubham in that county, he was possessed in
the son of Sir Thomas Markenfeld by the daughter and heiress of Minott, and
lather of a Sir John Markenfeld. All which has been found in records is, ihal a
Sir Thomas Markenfeld was appointed a Commissioner of Array lor ihe North
Riding of Yorkshire on the 5th July H Hen. IV. 1410. Fudera, iv. p' i, p. 174.
> Brooke's CollectioM for Yoricshire.
320
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Nicholas
MiDYLTON.
1370.^ He was appointed a Commissioner of Array for the West
Riding of Yorkshire on the 5th July 1410.«
Sir Nicholas Midylton married, first, Emma Ingmanthorp,
and secondly, before 1395, Avice, and left a son and heir Sir John
Midylton. By deed dated in the 19th Ric. II. Sir Thomas and
Avice his wife granted to John Midylton his son and heir, and to
Alice wife of the said John and daughter of Sir Peter Mauleverer
of Bennesley, all their lands in Hapton, Rydall, and in Newby
super Wyske.' The representative of the Deponent is Sir Thomas
Haggerston, Bart.
Sir Nicholas Midylton, aged thirty-eight, armed eighteen
years, said he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend
Or, at Balyngham-hill in the company of the Lord of Lancaster,
and also saw there Sir Henry Scrope in the like arms with a label
Argent, and his banner publicly borne throughout the host, the
said Sir Henry being then Governor of Picardy for the King. He
had seen Sir William Scrope, son of the said Sir Richard, in Gas-
cony, armed in the said arms with a label ; and when the Lord of
Lancaster marched through France he saw several of the name of
Scrope so armed, but he did not recollect who they were. He
had seen the said arms of Scrope in old glass windows and painted
on the walls in many abbeys, churches, and chapels in the county
of York, at Richmond, at Appleby, at Carlisle, and at Bolton in
Craven. He knew them to be the arms of Scrope because the
wardens of those churches and chapels told him so, and that it was
the common report throughout the country. He added, that the
said arms descended to Sir Richard Scrope from his ancestors be-
yond the time of memory without challenge or interruption. He
had never seen or heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors
before the last expedition into Scotland with the King.
The arms of Sir Nicholas Midylton were. Argent fretty, and a
canton, (or quarter), Sable.^
Sib Thomas
FiTz Hbnbt.
SIR THOMAS FITZ HENRY. There was a family of
some consequence of the name of Fitz Henry in Yorkshire, of
' Glover's Collectanea marked A. f. 163, and Brooke's MS. Collections, n* 1,
f. 240.
* Foedeia, iv. p* i. p. 174. • Glover's Collectanea A. f. 167.
* Roll of Arms temp. £dw. III. 8vo. 1829. Glover's Collections A. f. 163,
and other authorities.
^
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 321
which Aucher Fitz Henry married Joan the daughter and co- SmTHom
heiress of John de Bella Aqua, in the roign of Edward the First,'
and died in the 13th Edw. Ill, leaving Henry Fitz Henrj' his son
and heir, then upwards of forty years of age.' It is doubtful, how-
ever, from the difference between their arms,^ whether the Depo-
nent was related to that family. He appears to have possessed
Kelfield in the county of Lincoln; and the daughter and heiress
of a John Fitz Henry of that place conveyed Kelfield to John
■ Stillington.'
Sir Thomas Fitz Henry, aged thirty-nine years and upwards,
said he had very often seen Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure,
a bend Or ; especially at Balyngham hill, in Picardy, in presence
of the Lord of Lancaster, and also twice in Scotland, and with
his banner of the said arms publicly borne in presence of the
said Lord of Lancaster, and lately in presence of the King.
He also said, that, when in Prussia, he saw one Sir Geoffrey
Scrope buried under those arms with a difference; and had seen
the said arms of Scrope in the church of Croft in glass windows,
and in divers other churches in the county of York; that they
belonged of right to Sir Richard by descent and inheritance, as he
had heard from his ancestors ; and that he and they had had
peaceable possession of, and had continually and publicly used,
them from the time of the Conquest, as he had heard from many
valiant knights and esquires now deceased, without being inter-
rupted by Sir Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors, of whom he
had never heard excepting in this controversy.
The arms of Sir Thomas Fitz Henry were, Argent, a cross
engrailed Sable.*
■ Esch, 29 Edw. I. n° 57. See Escheats, 13 Edw. III. a" 18 ; 23 Edw. III.
n° 38 and n' 159.
' In the Roll of Arms temp, Edw. II. Sir Aucher Fiu Henry is said to have
borne. Ermine, on a chief Azure, three lioDcela Or ; and the same coat is attributed
to a Sir Richard Fill Heury in the Eoll of Arms temp. Edw, III. 8vo. iB2B
and 1829.
' There were fi»e men at arms of the name of Fiti Henry at Agincourt, iu Oc-
tober 1415 ; viz, Thomas Fitz Henry, who was in tlie retinue of Lord Ciimois, and
was sinin in the hatlle ; William Fitz Henry in the retinue of John Burgh ; another
Thomas Fit» Henry, and a John Fitz Henry in the retinue of Sir William Hahng-
ton, and a third Thomas Fitz Henry in the retinue of Sir John Grey.
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Si« w,Lu« SIR WILLIAM MALLORY. The statements in the d
k position of this Knight, relative to the arms of Sir Robe
Conyers being in a chapel at Houghton Conyers in Yorkshire,
explained by his pedigree. His grandfather, Sir Christoph<
MaUory, married Joan the daughter and heiress of Sir Robe
[ Conyers of Houghton Conyers, with whom he acquired that pr
* perty : their eldest son. Sir William Mallory of Houghton Conye
and Studley,^ married Katherine daughter and coheiress of S
Ralph Man wy eke or Nonwyke,^ who was living in 1421, and I
her had the deponent.^ He married Joan daughter of Sir Willia
Plumpton,^ ^ and died before 1421, as in that year Katherine h
mother granted lands in Houghton upon the death of Joan h
widow.^ William Mallory, his son and heir, appears to have be<
the Sir William Mallory, Knight, who received letters of pr
tection in consequence of being abroad in the Eing'^s service :
' April 1417, and again in May 1430 :^ he left descendants.^
Sir William Malore, aged thirty-four, armed sixteen yea
, and upwards, said, that the arms Azure, a bend Or, had alwa;
' belonged to Sir Richard Scrope and his ancestors, and never heai
to the contrary ; that he saw Sir Richard so armed in the exp
f dition of the Lord of Lancaster throughout France, and in Sec
I land with his banner with the said Lord of Lancaster, and aL
saw him there lately with the King, as well as others of his nan
and lineage so armed with dijBTerences as branches of his famil
He also said, that at Houghton Conyers, where he reside
there was a chapel of ancient structure ordained for certain pries
of a chantry, in which chapel were painted the arms of Scrop
Azure, a bend Or, and the arms of Sir Robert Conyers and S
Simon Warde, which had been there depicted from the time of tl
building of the chapel, which was beyond the memory of ma
He had heard brave and gallant men, old knights and esquires
the North, say, that the said Sir Richard had full right to be
the said arms, whidi had descended to him from the time of tl
Conquest, as he had heard from his ancestors and from oth
valiant persons then deceased. He had never seen or heard of S
» Pedigree in Philipot's MS. n» 3—77. f. 68.
* Pedigree in the Uarleian MS. 1487. f. 304.
^Carte*s Gascon Rolls, ii. 236, 269.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. ^3
Robert Grosvenor, or of his ancestors, before the commencement of
the controversy.
Sir William MaDory's arms were. Or, a lion rampant Gules,
collared Argent.'
NICHOLAS SABRAHAM, Esqcibb. The interesting par- ^"^"<^
ticulars which this person's deposition affords of his long and Esh.
various services, and the valuable information which it contains
relative to many military events in the reign of Edward the Third,
render it a subject for regret that so UttJe is known of him. Of
his parentage and descendants nothing has been ascertained, but it
appears from his evidence that he was a native of Yorkshire, and
was bom about 1326. Sabraham served in the wars iu Scotland,
France, Spain, Prussia, Egypt, and Turkey ; he was one of the
heroes of Cressy, and seems to have been present on every occasion
where danger was risked or honour acquired. It is remarkable
that, notwithstanding so distinguished a career, he should not have
received the honour of knighthood. Hemarried, before 1365, Alice
daughter and coheiress of Adam de Grapnell by Agnes daughter
and coheiress of Richard de Emeldon, with whom he obtained the
third part of the manor of Tesemouth in Northumberland.* She
was the widow of Orde, and on her death in 13!)9, John
Orde was found to be her son and heir, and upwards of thirty
years of age.^ Sabraham seems to have been then living, and
residing at Newcastle on Tyne, for in the inquisition on his wife's
decease she is called " Alicia uxor Nicholai Sabrani de Novo
Castro super Tynam."'
Nicholas Sabraham, Esquire, aged sixty and upwards, armed
thirty-nine years, said that the arms Azure, a bend Or, were the
arms of Sir Richard Scrope, fur he had seen the arms of Scrope
on banner and coat-armour in the expedition of Sir Edward Bal-
liol in Scotland, also on a banner in the company of the Earl of
Nortliampton, when he chivauchied by torchlight out of Logh-
maban as far as Peebles, and had in hia company Sir Henry
Scrope with his banner. The Deponent also said, that in the
KBsemblage from all Christian countries at the instance of the King
I Philipol's MS. n» 3—77. f. 68.
' Esch. 7 Edw. III. a" 38, Rol. Orig. ii. 288, and Escb. 32 Bic. II. n" 40.
' £3ch. S2 Ric. II. n" 40, Primed Calendar, vol. iii.
2t2
334
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Nicholas
SABRAUAJi,
Esq.
of Cyprus, when he meditated his expedition to Alexandria in ships
and galleys, one Sir Stephen Scrope was present, armed in the arms
of Scrope, Azure, a bend Or, with a label Argent for difference,
and immediately on landing, received in those arms the order of
Knighthood from the King of Cyprus. He further said that he
was armed in Prussia, in Hungary, at Constantinople, ^^ a la bras^
of Saint George, and at Messembre, at which latter place there is
a church, and therein lieth one of the Scropes buried, and beneath
him there are depicted on the wall the arms of Scrope, Azure, a
bend Or, with a label, and on the label three ^^ bezants Gules :'" he
knew them to be the arms of Scrope, and to have borne that name,
because the wardens of the said church told him so. The Deponent
saw Sir Henry Scrope armed in France with a banner in the com-
pany of the Earl of Northampton, and Sir William Scrope, elder
brother of the said Sir Richard, in the same company, armed in
the entire arms, or with differences, at the battle of Cressy, at the
siege of Calais, in Normandy, in Brittany, in Gascony, and in
Spain, and beyond the great sea in many places and at many
chivalrous exploits : in those places he never heard speak of Sir
Robert Grosvenor or of any of his ancestors. He had often heard
his ancestors say that the said Sir Richard and his ancestors had a
right to the said arms, they having used them from beyond the
time of memory, as he learnt from old men, Lords, Km'ghts, and
Esquires in his country, now no more. He never heard of Sir
Robert Grosvenor or of his ancestors, and the only challenge he
ever heard of as to the right to the said arms, was the challenge of
one Carminow, made to the said Sir Richard Scrope before Paris,
when the arms were allowed by the King and the late Duke of
Lancaster, and both were permitted to bear the arms entire.
The arms of Sabraham are said to have been. Argent, a bend
embattled, counter-embattled Sable.^
William
BitBT, Esq.
WILLIAM BISET, Esquire. This person, who was born
about the year 1316, and served in most of the wars of his time,
has not been identified.
William Biset, Esquire, aged seventy years, first armed at
the battle of Scluse in the retinue of the Lord de Coucy, said
1 Alphabet of Arms in the Heralds* College.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 336
that in the diiferent places where he had been armed he never saw W'!^"-
any except those of the name of Scrope bear the arms Azure, a
bend Or ; that at the battle of Scluse he saw Sir Henry Scrope so
armed, with a label Argent. He also saw the said Sir Henry so
armed and with his banner, in the battle of Espagnols sur Mer, in
the company of the Earl of Northampton, the said Earl being in
the company of the King. He also saw him armed, with his ban-
ner, with the Lord of Lancaster at Balyngbam-hill, and from
thence in Caux, and before Paris, when the late King was at the
conference there, and Sir Richard Scrope also. Biset further
deposed, that he had heard from old Knights and old Esquires,
and from his ancestors, who were then deceased, that Sir Richard
Scrope had inherited the said arms from his ancestors, who came
with the Conqueror. He had never heard of Sir Robert Gros-
venor or of his ancestors.
According to a collection made by Glover, Somerset Herald
in the reign of Elizabeth, of the arms of such Knights and Gen-
tlemen of Yorkshire as served under Edward the First, the
arms of Biset of that county were. Gules, on a bend Argent,
three escallops Sable.'
WILLIAM HESILRIGGE, Esquire. This veteran soldier, Will,
who, it appears from his deposition, was in most of the expedi- Em.
tions, sieges, and battles of the reign of Edward the Third, in-
cluding Habdon Hill in July 1333, and Crcssy in 1346, was
the son of Simon Hesilrigge of Hesilrigge in Northumberland,-
and was bom about 1316. For his services in the Scotch wars
the King granted him, by patent dated 20th November 13G0,
the confiscated estate of Gilbert de Midleton.^ In the 50th Edw.
in. 1376, he is said to have beet Knight of the Shire for the
county of Northumberland;- but this is rendered unlikely by the
fact of his being only an esquire in 1386, which, considering his
long and distinguished services, is not a bltle remarkable. He-
silrigge was appointed a Commissioner of Array for Northum-
berland in 1378-9,' and two years afterwards was a Commis-
' Harleian MS. 1407.
' MS. marked C. 8. f. 14 b. in the College of Arms, and Nichols's Hislory of
Leicesienhire, vol. ii. p. 756. ' RoL Pat 1 Ric.II. p. II, m. 31 d.
326 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
\\iLLiAx gioner to inquire into the conduct of certain persons who had
Esq. assaulted Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland, one of the war-
dens of the marches.^
The time of his decease is unknown. By Joan daughter and
heiress of Sir Robert Esselington, who, as well as her husband,
was living in the 10th Ric. II., he had three sons; 1. William,
who died without issue ; 2. Donald, who married Joan the daugh-
ter of Nicholas Heron, and was living in the 10th Ric. II. ; 3.
Thomas Hesilrigge of Noseley in the county of Leicester, which
property he possessed in right of his wife, Isabel daughter and
coheiress of Sir Roger Heron by Margaret daughter and sole
heiress of Sir Ralph Hastings of Kirby in that county. He was
the ancestor of Sir Arthur Grey Hesilrigge of Noseley Hall, Bart.*
William Hesilrigg, Esquire, aged sei^enty, armed fifty years,
said he knew that the arms Azure, a bend Or, appertained by right
and by inheritance to Sir Richard Scrope, because during the whole
time the Deponent had been armed he had seen and known the
said Sir Richard, or Sir Henry, or Sir William elder brother of
the said Sir Riphard, or Stephen Scrope brother of the said Sir
Henry, in the Scotch wars at Halidon-hill in presence of the
King, and Stephen Scrope in the Scotch wars, before the wars in
France were commenced by the late King, wherein they were
armed, some in the entire arms, some with dijBTerences ; and he had
heard from his ancestors that they had acquired great honour in
them, and had been in constant possession thereof from time imme-
morial. The Deponent said he had seen Sir William Scrope
armed in company of the Earl of Northampton at the raising of
the siege of Vannes, when the King was there ; that the King then
appointed his cousin-german the Earl of Northampton warden of
Brittany, and went thence to the siege of Morlaix ; that the said
Sir William was there armed in the said arms entire ; and at that
si^e was Sir Henry Scrope with his banner, and the said Sir Wil-
liam was there wounded by a quarrel, of which wound he died a
few years afterwards. The Deponent afterwards saw, at the battle
of Cressy, Sir Henry with his banner, and Stephen Scrope, both
I Rot. Scoc. 4 Ric. II. m. 10.
* MS. marked C. 8. f. 14 b. in the College of Arms, and Nichols's History of
Leicestershire, vol. ii. p. 756.
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SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 327
armed in those arms with differences, and Sir William Scrope WiLLiiM
armed in the arms entire, in the vanguard, with llie Earl of North- £*«,
ampton and in presence of the Prince, then commander of the
vanguard, and with him many good Knights of the county of
Chester, and many good archers, who neither at that lime nor
afterwards gainsaid the said arms of Sir William or Sir Henry
Scrope. Afterwards at the siege of Calais the said Sir Henry
was armed in these arms day and night, and had his banner with
him, and Sir William Scrope was armed day and night at the
same siege, and died of the wound he received at the siege of
Morlaix, and was carried into England, He had heard from his
ancestors in his youth that the Scropes were as ancient as the
Conquest. He had never before heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor or
of any of his ancestors.
The arms of William Hesilrigge were, Argent, a chevron Sable,
between three hazel leaves Vert.
WILLIAM SPENSER, Esqcire. This Deponent was pro- Wn.L.*«
bably a member of the family of Spenser or Despenser, who held '''^^""■
lands in the counties of Lincoln and York in the reign of Edward
the Third,' and afterwards in Nottinghamshire," but he has not
been identified. He was born about 1336, and his military ser-
vices are fully detailed in his deposition.
William Spenser, Esquire, aged fifty and upwards, armed
thirty years, said that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope armed
Aiure, a bend Or, and many others of his name and lineage so
armed with differences; that he fully remembered to have seen the
arms of Scrope at Blaungi in the chivauche of the late King, and
when the King heard of the taking of Berwick by the Scotch, he
returned into England and came to Berwick to its relief; in which
' Philip le Desp«nser, son of Despenser liy Margaret Rooe, died seised
of dicers lands in YorlLshire and Liocolnshire in the 23td Edw. III., and by Joan
his wife had a son Philip, who was then seven years old. Esch. 23 Edw. 111.
a" 73, Printed Calendar, ii. p, 151. A Philip Despenser, and prohahly the person
who was seven years of age in the 33rd Edw. 111., married Elizabeth daughter and
coheir of Kobert Lord Tiploft, (and sister of Margaret Lady Scrope of Bolton, and
ofMiliceot llie wife of Sir Stephen Scrope,) and died in the 2Dd lien. VI. seised
of lands in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Esch. 2 Hen. VI. n° 31.
' Tboroton's History of Nottinghamshire.
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328
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Willi 4M
Spbkseb, Esq.
chivauche the said Sir Richard Scrope was armed in those arms,
and afterwards at Balyngham-hill ; and a.% the battle of Spain,
[Najara,] in company of the Lord of Lancaster, he was publicly
and notoriously armed in those arms, and afterwards in Scotland
with his banner with the said Lord of Lancaster, and in the last
expedition into Scotland with our Lord the King. He had heard
from his ancestors and from many valiant Lords, Knights, and
Esquires, then no more, that the ancestors of Sir Richard came
with the Conqueror, and had from that time peaceably and com-
monly borne the said arms, and that they had descended to Sir
Richard by right of inheritance. He had never heard of Sir
Robert Grosvenor, or of his ancestors, until that controversy.
The arms of Spenser of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire were,
Barry of six Or and Azure, a canton Ermine.^
John CbebS'
WBLLE,£|Q.
JOHN CRESSWELLE, Esquire. Of this person, whose
deposition is unimportant, few facts are on record. From the
slight account which is given of his family, it appears that they
were seated at Cress welle, part of the barony of By well in Nor-
thumberland, as early as the reign of John ;^ that he was the son
of an Alexander Cresswelle of that place, who was living in the
2nd Ric II. ;^ and that he was bom about 1356.
It appears that he was taken prisoner by the Scotch sometime
before 1380 ; for in that year, or 1381, a writ was directed to the
mayor and bailiffs of the town of Kingston-upon-HuU, commanding
them to pay to John de Creswelle, in aid of his ransom, he being
then prisoner in Scotland, 40/. out of certain goods and chattels
of the Scotch which had been taken by the English.' In 1404
he was constable of Warkworth Castle,* and was succeeded, but
in what year is not known, by John Cresswelle his son and heir,
the ancestor of John Cresswelle of Cresswelle, who died in 1781,
and left two daughters his coheirs, namely, Katherine, and
Frances, the wife of Francis Easterby, who assumed the name and
arms of Cresswelle only in April 1807.
' In the Roll of Arms temp. Edw. III. 8vo. 1829, that coat is attributed to a
Sir Philip le Despencer, and is corroborated by the description of the seal of the
Philip Despenser who married Elizabeth Tiptoft, in Thoroton*s Hist, of Notts.
* Hutchinson's View of Northumberland. ' Rot Scoc. 4 Ric. II. m. 6.
* Cottonian MS. Vespasian, F. viL f. 61 a.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 329
John Creaswelle, Esquire, aged ihirly and upwards, armed ■
seventeen years, said he had seen Sir Richard Scrope armed
Azure, a bend Or, and many others of his name and lineage with
differences ; and that according to common fame in the north, these
arms had descended to him from his ancestors, who had continually
and peaceably used them from beyond the time of memory. He
had never heard of any interruption being offered them in their
usage of the said arms by Sir Robert Grosvenor or bis ancestors,
or by any other person ; nor had he ever heard of him or them
before this debate.
Cresswelle's arms were. Gules, three plates, on each plate a
squirrel sejant of the field,
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN AT YORK BEFORE THE SAID COM-
MISSIONERS, ON THE 18"^ DAY OF THE SAID 18"' SEP-
TEMBER, 1386, BEING PRODUCED BY SIR RICHARD
SCROPE AND HIS PROCTOR IN THE MANNER HERE-
AFTER WRITTEN.
SIMON, Parson of the Church op Wbnsl4v, anciently
called WvNSLOWE, was presented to that rectory by Richard Lord Pa»!
Scrope of Bolton, on the 29th September 1361, by the name of
" Symon de Wenslay."^ His deposition affords much informa-
tion relative to the Scrope family, and contains some curious
particulars.
Sir Simon, Parson of the Church of Wynsselowe, of the age
of aixty and upwards, said, certainly that the arms Azure, a
bend Or, appertained to Sir Richard Scrope, for they were in his
church of Wynsselowe in certain glass windows of that church, of
which Sir Richard was patron ; and on the west gable window
of the said church were the entire arms of Sir Richard Scrope in
a glass window, the setting up of which arms was "beyond the
memory of man. The said arms were also in divers other parts of
the said church, and in his chancel in a glass window, and in the
east gable also were the said arms placed amongst the arms of great
lords, such as the King, the Earl of Northumberland, the Lord of
Neville, the Earl of Warren. He also said that there was a tomb
' Wliitaker's History of Richmondshire.
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330 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
in hie cemetery of Simon Scrope, as might then be seen by the
inscription on the tomb, who was buried in the ancient fashion in
a stone chest, with the inscription Cj» {itft ^imotiO U Baoft, without
date. And after Simon Scrope lieth one Henry Scrope, son of the
aaid Simon, in the same m&nner as his father, next the side <^ his
father, in the same cemetery. And after him lieth William son of
the said Henry Scrope, who Uelh in the manner aforesaid beneath
the stone, and there is graven thereon ^c; gidt BBidtatn It j^crope,
without date, for the bad weather, wind, snow, and raia, had so de-
faced it, that no man could make out the remainder of the writing,
so old and defaced was it. Several others of his lineage and name
were buried there, one after the other, under large square stones,
which being so massive were sunk into the earth, so that no more
of the stone than the summit of it could be seen ; and many more
of their sons and daughters were buried under great stones.
From William came Henry Scrope, knight, who lieth in the
Abbey <^ St. Agatha, armed in the arms Azure, a bend Or,
which Sir Henry was founder of the said abbey ; and Sir William
Scrope, elder brother of Sir Richard that now is, lieth in the
same abbey in the same arms depicted, but not painted. The said
Sir Simon placed before the Commissioners an albe with flaps,
upon which were embroidered the arms of the Scropes entire, the
making of which arms, and the name of the donor were beyond the
memory of man. He added, that the patronage of his church
of Wynsselowe had always been vested in Sir Richard Scrope and
his ancestors bearing the name of Scrope, beyond the memory of
man; and that the arms Azure, a bend Or, had always been
reputed to belong to him and his ancestors, and he never heard
to the contrary : he had never heard that the arms had been chal-
lenged, or of Sir Richard Grosvenor or any of his ancestors,
WILLIAM DE IRBY, Official of Richmond. It is pro-
bable that this Deponent was a member of the family of Irby of
Lincolnshire. He was bom before 1326, and was rector of Mede-
burne in that county,' as well as Master of the Hospital of St.
Nicholas near Richmond. On the 12th of January 1386-7, being
then Vicar General of John de Waltham Archdeacon of Rich-
' Depoaitiona, vol. i. p. 320.
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SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 331
mond, he delivered in a certificate of having visited divers monaa- Wu.u*b ds
teries, churches, chapels, hospitals, oratories, and other places
within that archdeaconry, and discovered therein the arms of
Scrope, as is fully specified in the document itself.'
Master William de Irby, Official of Richmond, aged sixty and
upwards, said he had seen the arms Azure, a bend Or, on glass
and paintings in more than forty churches, some entire, some with
labels, and that they were known, and by the present possessors of
those churches reputed, to be the arms of Sir Richard Scrope,
and his cousins, who had heard so from old men before them, and
from common fame throughout the country. The Deponent said,
moreover, that he had seen in the nunnery of Marygg certain
muniments of the ancestors of the said Sir Richard, sealed with
the seal of the said arms entire, dated sixty-eight years before ;
that in a hospital of St. Nicholas near Richmond, of which he was
master, he had a fronlore worked in silk before an altar, on which
frontore were the said arms of Scrope, the making of which was
beyond human memory. He knew the said arms to be those of
Scrope, they being so called by old men of the said hospital, and
never heard them called otherwise. He had never heard of Sir
Robert Grosvenor or of his arms, or of his ancestry, until the com-
mencement of this controversy.
CONAN ASKE, Esquirb, appears to have been the son of ^onai. A««f,
Conan Aake of Aske in the county of York, by Emma daughter
of Ingram Boynton of Sadbury,^ and was born about 1348. He
served in the wars of France, Spain, and Scotland, and in the 12th
Ric. II. 1388-9 was a Commissioner of Array for the North Riding
of Yorkshire.' In the 15th Ric. II. 1391-2 he was seised of lands
in West Newton, and in the 11th Hen. IV. 1409 held a fee in
Aske and Marrig. The time of his death is unknown, but it is
not likely that he was the Conan Aske, Esquire, who obtained
I Depositions, vol. i. p. 320 — 236.
• Brooke's MS. Collection», n- 1, f. 25 ; Philipol's MS. n" 3—77, f. 37. In
WTiilaker's " History of Richmondshire," toI. i. 116, and in Gale's " Regislrum
Honoris de Richmond," p. 231, the Deponent's mother is said lo have been Isabel
daughler and coheir of William Pert. See, however, p. 109 antea, where il ia
proved by the dales lo be impossible, as the said Isabel was not bom until 1387.
> Rot. Scoc. II Ric. II. m. 6.
2v2
m
332 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
CoNAN AsKE, letters of general attorney in consequence of being abroad in the
King"'s service in the 9th Hen.V. 1421,^ for, if he were then living,
he must have been upwards of seventy-three years of age.
Conan Aske married Eleanor daughter of Roger Medlam,^ and
by her, who died in 1428 or 1429} had a son, Roger Aske, who
was thirty-eight years of age at his mother^s decease.' He mar-
ried Elizabeth daughter and eventually coheiress of Sir Roger
Swyllington by Joan Scrope widow of William de Pert of Tiver-
ington in Yorkshire, and daughter and sole heiress of Sir Stephen
Scrope, fourth son of Sir Geoffrey Scrope of Masham.^ Their son,
Conan Aske,* was twenty-three years of age in 1427,^ and was
ancestor of Roger Aske, who left two daughters his coheirs :
Elizabeth, who married Sir Richard Bowes of Streatlam, and
Anne, the wife of Sir Ralph Bulmer.^
Conan de Aske, of the age of thirty-eight, armed twenty
years, said he had known and seen Sir Richard Scrope armed
Azure, a bend Or, in Spain in presence and in the retinue of the
Lord of Lancaster, and in France also at the chivauche which the
said Lord made throughout France ; and twice in Scotland, the
first time with the said Lord, Sir Richard being there with his
banner, the other time in the last campaign in Scotland with the
King ; and that he had heard from his ancestors that these arms
belonged to Sir Richard and his ancestors in direct line from the
Conquest, and never heard to the contrary. He added, that
divers of the ancestors of Sir Richard lie buried in the Abbeys of
St. Agatha and Coverham under the said arms. He said, on the
oath he had sworn, that he never knew or heard of Sir Robert
Orosvenor or of any of his ancestors until this dispute arose in
Scotland, or of any controversy by them about these arms.
Conan Aske^s arms were. Or, three bars Azure.^
JoHNDE JOHN DE BRERETON, Chaplain of Marygg. Marrig,
or Marygg, of which this person appears to have been a chaplain,
* Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 243.
» Brooke's MS. n© 1, f. 25; Philipot's MS. 3—77, f. 37.
» Esch. 7 Hen. VI. n* 22.
* Esch. 6 Hen. VI. no 52. See page 109 antea.
* This Conan is erroneously said to be the Deponent in page 109.
* Esch. 6 Hen. VI. n° 52.
SIR RICllARi) SCRUPE. 333
was a nunnery in the deanery of Richmond, founded by Roger J
de Ask towards the close of the reign of King Stephen.
Sir John de Brereton, Chaplain, sent to York by the Prioress
and nuns of Marrygg, said the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged
to Sir Richard Scrope, for tiiat in the church of Marrygg there
were two glass windows, the one in front of the high altar, and the
other in the Porch of St, Thomas, in which were the arms of one
of the Scropes, viz. Azure, a bend Or, with a label Argent, and
that the said arms entire without a label were in a glass window in
the dormitory of the nuns in the south part, which arms had been
there since the building of the said church and dormitory, which
was beyond the memory of man, and had always been called the
arms of Scrope. The said Chaplain brought and exhibited a
charter indented, made between Margaret Prioress of Marrygg,
and the Convent of the same place, of the one pari, and Sir Henry
Scrope of the other part, witnessing that the aforesaid Prioress and
convent had granted, and by their said charter confirmed, to the
said Sir Henry ten acres of land, with appurtenances, in Staynes-
cogh, in demesne, upon certain condition»! ; the one part of which
charter was sealed in white wax with an escocheon of the said arms
of Scrope, and in a canton above a small lioncel with the name
written thereunder ; and the date of the charter so given was, " at
Marrygg, the 5th day of April, in the fourteenth year of the
reign of King Edward son to King Edward." He said the arms
of Sir Robert Grosvenor or of his ancestors were not in the Priory
of Marrygg, and that he never heard of him or them until the
commencement of this controversy.
SIR THOMAS ROOS of Kendal. There is a material
difference in the statements of genealogists as to the descent of the
family of Rous of Kendal from the baronial line of Hamlake ; but
it is most probable that they sprung from Robert Baron Roos of
Werk, second son of Robert Baron Roos of Hamlake, by Isabel
daughter of William the Lion King of Scotland, which Robert
Baron Roos of Werke was living Jn the 26th Edw. I.'
William Roos of Kendal died in 1309, leaving Thomas his
son and heir, then two years and-a-half old, who was the deponent.-
■ Pedigree of Itoos, in BAker's History o( NorthamptonaliiTe, vol. i. p. 269.
' Esch. 3 Edw. 11. n" 54.
334 DEPONENTS IX FAVOUR OF
This fitatement respecting his birth agrees exactly with his saying
he was eighty in 1386, and fixes that event to about the year 1306.
His deposition, which is extremely interesting, notices the various
occasions on which he had served in the field, or witnessed the
chivalrous amusement of the tournament, to which statement all
that can be added is, that he obtained letters of protection, being
then about to accompany the army into Oascony, in 1357,' again
in 1364,' and again in February 1378,* at which time he was in
the retinue of the Earl of Arundel ; and that he was a Commis-
sioner of Array for the County of Westmoreland in 1378-9.*
Sir Thomas Roos died in 1390 or 1391 -^ by a daughter of Sir
John Preston of Westmoreland, he had several children.^ Peter
Roos, one of his sons, wa.s also a witness in favour of Sir Richard
Scrope,^ and his daughter Margaret married Richard Bur^ of
Calthorpe. His eldest son, John Roos, died in 1358,^ long before
his father, and by Katherine daughter of Sir Thomas Latimer,*
left Elizabeth his daughter and heiress, who was bom in 1356,"
and died before the 20th Ric. II.« She married Sir William Parr
of Kendal, and on the death of her grandfather, was found to
be his heir.* Their great great grandson was father of William
Marquesii of Northampton, and of Queen Katherine Parr,^
Sir Thomas Roos of Kendale, aged eighty and upwards,
armed sixty years, said he had seen Sir Geoffrey Scrope armed
in the arms Azure, a bend Or, and on his pennon at Stan-
hope Park; and the said Sir Geoffrey had for his father William
Scrope, as Deponent had heard his ancestors say, which Sir
William was the most noble tourneyer of his time that one could
6nd in any country, and tourneyed in these arms; and as the
Deponent had heard from his ancestors, he was before his knight-
hood one of the most noble " bohordurez" that could be found in
a country, and a noble servant and esquire of arms to those
armed in tournaments. He had also seen the banner of Sir
Henry Scrope at the chivauche of Baliol, armed in those arms
with a label Argent : and at the siege of Berwick, when the late
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, i. 137.
' Carte's Gascon Rclls, i. 152. ' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 133.
• Pat. 2 Ric. II. m. 31 d. • Eich. 14 Ric, II.n''4i.
' Vincent's MSS. a" 10. f. 205, and 20. f. 230. ' See page 234 antea.
' Esch. 33Edw. UI. n<'20.
^
SIR RICHARD SCROFE. 33S
King relieved it, he saw Sir William Scrope, brother of the said Sir Sir 1
Richard, armed in the entire arms, who came to the said relief in
company with the Earl of Northampton ; and Sir Henry Scrope with
his banner, and so armed with the label, «ame in company of the
said Earl, and during the whole campaign after the affair of
Stanhope Park. He had seen the same arms borne by those of
the name of Scrope in the wars of Scotland during all his time, and
before, as he was totd by his ancestors, who infonned him in his
youth that those arms descended to them from the Conquest, since
which time they had peaceably possessed them in great honour,
and that though he was an old man, he was nut so old as to be able
to recollect who was the first ancestor of Sir Richard. He had never
heard of the ancestors of Sir Robert GrosTenor, or of any bearing
that name, until this dispute. Roos added, that he had been in
divers tournaments in England, at Dunstable, at the Newmarket,
and at Guildford, and saw Sir Geoffrey Scrope tourney in these arms
with a white label at Guildford with his banner, and at the next
tournament of Newmarket ; and afterwards at Dunstable there
was Sir Henry Scrope, that now is, armed in these arras, and
tourneyed very ably, and received great applause from the late
noble King. At these tournaments the late King and the great
lords of the whole realm were present ; and if there had been any
one there who had borne those arms for the name of Grosvenor,
the King, and the lords and knights present, must have known
the name of the said Grosvenor and his arms, or of some of his
ancestors, for it is through tournaments or service that a know-
ledge is acquired of chivalry.
The arms of Sir Thomas Roos of Kendal were, Or, three
water bougets Sable.'
AMAND DE MONCEAUX, Esquibe, was probably a ^;«
younger son of the Sir John de Monceaux, who died seised of the
manor of Bemeston in the county of York in 1363, and who left
his son John de Monceaux then thirty years of age and upwards-*
The property of the Deponent, who must have been born before
' Vincent's MS. n" 10, f. 205. and 20, f. 230.
' Esch. 37 Edw. III. n" 45. Thomas de MoDceaux, father of tlie said John,
also died seised of Bemeston, in 1345. Esch. 19 Edw. 111. n" 23.
336 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Amakdde 1333, appears however to have been chiefly in Cumberland,* of
which county he was Sheriff in the 6th, 7th, and 9th Ric. II.*
and represented it in Parliament in 1377^ and 1386.* In the
12th Ric. II. 1388-9 he was escheator of the county of Northum-
berland,^ and seems to have been living as late as 1398, when
^^ Amand de Monceaux^ is said to have held half of the manor of
Whinfell, one-third of the manor of Broghton, two parts of the
manor of Dundrawe, ynih other lands, of Maud Countess of Nor-
thumberland in the county of Cumberland.* Monceaux was fre-
quently employed in the wars ; he was, he says, at the battle of
Durham in 1346, and had served in France and Scotland. He
married, before 1366, Margaret, one of the cousins and heirs of
William de Rykheved, who died in that year possessed of various
lands in Cumberland;^ but nothing has been discovered of Mon-
ceaux^s descendants.
Amand de Monceaux, Esquire, of the age of fifty years and
upwards, armed thirty-eight years, said, he saw Sir Richard
Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, in Scotland before the battle of
Durham, in company with Sir Henry Percy grandfather of the
Earl of Northumberland ; and afterwards before Paris with the
King, as is well known to all, the King, the Prince, the Duke
of Lancaster, and all the lords in that expedition ; and there was
also Sir Henry with his banner with those arms and a white label,
and on various occasions in Scotland in the King^s expeditions,
armed in their arms, with many others of his lineage so armed
with differences. He had heard from his ancestors and from
old knights then no more, that the said arms had descended to
Sir Richard from the Conquest by right line of inheritance, and
never heard to the contrary. The Deponent also said, that Sir
Robert de Hilton had a daughter to marry, for which marriage
Sir Richard treated; but forasmuch as they could- not agree,
the said Sir Richard entered into a treaty of marriage with Sir
William.de la Pole, and espoused the daughter of the said Wil-
liam. And the said Sir Robert de Hilton was enraged thereat,
and said, ^ Now I am' glad that he did not marry my daughter,
» Printed Calendar to- the Inq. Post Mortem, iii. 244-5.
3 Harleian MS. 259. f. 65 a. ^ Lansdowne MS. 229. f. 28.
* Rot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d. • Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 32.
> Esch. 40 Edw. III. n** 2.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 337
' for I have heard say, that he is not a ' grand gentilhomme ;''' '
to which Sir John Hasethorpe, who was upwards of one hun-
dred years old, replied, ' Oh, Sir ! say not so, for of certainty,
' and upon my soul, he is come of ' grands gentilshnnriaies' from
* the time of the Conquest.' He had never heard of any chal-
lenge or interruption made by Sir Robert firosvenor or by any of
his ancestors, and had never heard speak of him or of any of his
ancestors, or of any other person of the name of Grosvenor.
The arms of Amand de Monceaux were Gules, a cross patonce
Or; in canton an escallop Argent.'
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN AT THE SAME PLACE BEFORE THE
SAID COMMISSIONERS. ON THE 19'" OF THE SAID MONTH
AND YEAR, PRODUCED BY SIR RICHARD SCROPE'S
PROCTOR IN MANNER FOLLOWING.
SIR WILLIAM MURRERS, or MORERES. All which s,«
has been found relative to the family of this individual, is, that
he was cousin and heir of Richard de Murrers, and gave half a
mark for confirmation of a grant of free warren in his demesne
lands in Klmington in the county of York in the 29th Edw. III.
1355.* He was born about 1322, and commenced his career in
arms in the expedition to Antwerp in July 1338. Murrers fre-
quently served under the Duke of Lancaster, and was in his retinue
in France io 1360, as well as at the battle of Najara in Spain in
April 1367. In 1368 ho obtained letters of protection and general
attorney, being then in the King's service abroad, at which
time he was a knight.' He was appointed custos of Northampton
Gaol in 1378 or 1379,* and in July 1383 was Marshal of the
King's Household.' To one of the charges brought against Mi-
chael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk by the Commonn in the Parliament
which met at Westminster on the 1st October 1386, that he had
given the King only fifty pounds for the Manor of Faxflete,
whereas the said manor was worth 200/. a year, the Earl replied,
' Pliilipot's Ordinarj in ihe College of Arras.
' Kol. Orig. ii. 239. ' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ■JB Edw, III. i. 156.
* Pat. 2 llic.ll. p.l,m.27. ' Fcpdera, lii. [)' iii. p. 156,
r
338 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib Wiluam that Sir William Murrers informed him that he had held two
MuSREIlt- .11
parts of that manor with the rent in North Dalton at farm for
seven years at fifty marks per annum, by which he had lost 100
marks.'
The time when the Deponent died has not been ascertained :
it is most likely that he was the Sir William Murrers who mar-
ried Margaret daughter of Sir Edmund de Kendale and sister of
Felicia mother of John Norton, who died in 1367 ;- but nothing is
known of his descendants.^
Sir William Murrers, aged sixty-four and upwards, first armed
at Antwerp, before the late King went to the siege of Tournay,
said that he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed. Azure, a bend Or,
in France, when the late noble King was before Paris, and the
peace was concluded at Chartres, and afterwards in Spain with
the Lord of Lancaster at the battle of Najara, and others of his
lineage so armed with differences, in divers expeditions and journeys
where he had served. He had heard from his ancestors, and from
the oldest knights and esquires of the North, that the said Sir
Richard Scrope and his ancestors had always been in undisturbed
possession of these arms, and never heard to the contrary before
this controversy. He had heard his father say that he heard from
his father and from other old Knights, that the Scropes were
descended from noble and ' gentilx gentz,^ and did great honour
to the arms Azure a bend Or, and that common fame proved that
they had descended to Sir Richard by right of inheritance. He
added, that he had often heard the name of Grosvenor, but of
what rank or condition they were he never heard ; nor had he ever
seen Sir Robert Grosvenor or any of his ancestors armed in any
arms, or ever heard of any interruption ofiered by them about
the said arms until this debate.
The arms of Sir William Murrers have not been discovered.
» Rot. Pari. ui. 218 b. « Esch. 41 Edw. III. n^50.
> A William Moreres was the husband of Christiana sister of William Baron
Windesor, in the 8th Ric. II., which Christiana was then thirty-four years of age.
£sch. eod. ann.
SIR RICHAKD 8CROPE.
SIR ROBERT CONSTABLE was the eldest i
Mannaduke Constable of Flamborough in Yorkshire,' and !
ceedcd his father in 1378, at which time he was twenty.five years
of age.'' He serve<l in the expeditions under the Duke of Lan-
caster in France in the autumn of 1373; in Scotland in 1383,
in which year he obtained letters of protection;' and again in
that country under the King in person in 1386. He married,
before 1383, Margaret widow of Alexander Surteys; and in the
Tth Ric. II. received the royal pardon for forming that alliance
without licence,*
Sir Robert Constable probably died suddenly, as he made a
nuncupative will, which is dated at his Manor house of Flambo-
rough, on Monday next before the feast of St. Andrew the Apos-
tle 1400, and was proved on the 6th of January following. By it
he directed his body to be buried in the choir of the church of
St. Oswald of Flamborough, and bequeathed to (hat church his
best horse, with the armour, as a mortuary. His goods he order-
ed to be divided into three parts : the first he gave to Margaret
fais wife; the second was to be divided in equal shares amongst
such of las children as had not been provided for ; and the third
lot he reserved to himself, directing his wife Margaret and his son
Mannaduke, whom he appointed his executors, after payment of his
funeral expenses, ant! paying the sum of 40/. towards the repairing
of a quay on the sea, to lay out the residue in the manner that
might seem most expedient for the repose of his soul. Besides
Sir Marmaduke his eldest son, the name of only one of his other
children has been preserved, viz. Elizabeth, who was a nun in
the Convent of Swyne in Holderness. She is mentioned in her
brother Sir Marmaduke's will, which was dated 29th June 1404,
and was proved on the 7th of January following.*
The elder line of the Constables of Flamborough became extinct
in the person of the regicide Sir "WiUiam Constable ; but from Sir
Robert the Deponent, the Constables of Everingham were also
' Sir Marmaduke's Will was dated on Thursday before ihe feast of ihe Annun-
ciation 1376, and wu proved on Ibe 19th June 1378. lie mentioned Ihereiii Joan
hii late wile, who lay buried at Holme ; his then wife Elizabeth ; and hia son
Robert. ' Esch. 1 Ric. II. n° 15.
• Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 133. ' Rot. Claua.7 Ric. ILm. 12.
' From copies of the Wills in ihe Roisters at York.
2x2
340 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
lineally descended. They were advanced to the rank of Baronet
by Charles the First, and are now represented by William Con-
stable Maxwell of Everingham Park, Esq.
Sir Robert Constable, aged thirty-three and upwards, armed
thirteen years, said that he had often heard from his ancestors,
and from valiant persons then dead, that the arms Azure, a bend
Or, belonged to Sir Richard Scrope by right of inheritance from
his ancestors, who had notoriously and publicly used them ; and
who, he had heard, came with the Conqueror. He said he
saw Sir Richard Scrope so armed in Scotland with the Lord of
Lancaster with his banner publicly borne, and also saw him in the
last expedition thither under the King, and many others of his
name and lineage with diSerences as branches. He also saw Sir
William Scrope the eldest son of the said Sir Richard, and Sir
Stephen Scrope, armed in the same arms with differences, in com-
pany of the Lord of Lancaster in his great chivauche through
France into Guienne, and saw also Sir John Scrope son of Sir
Henry Scrope so armed with a difference in company of the Lord
of Gloucester, then Earl of Buckingham, in his expedition in Brit-
tany : he had frequently seen the said arms in glass windows and
on paintings in abbeys, churches, and in many other places, and
never heard of any other man being entitled to them excepting Sir
Richard Scrope and his kinsmen uf the name of Scrope, and their
ancestors. He had never heard of any interruption being offered
them in bearing the said arms until the commencement of this
dispute in Scotland, and had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor
or of any of his ancestors.
Sir Robert Constable's arms were, Quarterly Gules and Vaire,
a bend Argent.'
SIR GERARD SALVAYN. The ancient family of Sal-
vayn was seated at North Duflield and Herswell in Yorkshire.
Sir Gerard Salvayn^ of those places died in 1374, leaving bis
grandson Gerard, the Deponent, the son of his eldest son John
Salvayn, who died vita patris,* his heir, then sixteen years of age,
' Roll of Arius temp. Edw. III. Sto. 1829, where thia coat i« attributed to
" Moneire le Conestable, Seigneur de Flamburgh ;'' and Heralds' Visitations.
> Each. 43 Edw. III. D» 66.
* He was the sou of John Salvayn by Margaret daughter and coheiress of
Robert Lord Roos of Weike. £sch. 6 Edw. U.
Slit RICHARD SCROPE. 341
which agrees exactly with his statement that he was twenty-eight s
in 1386. He served in the expedition against the Scots under the
Duke uf Lancaster in 13^13, and again under the King in person
in iaB.5. In August 1403 he swore to continue loyal to Henry
the Fourth, and his heirs ; and not to associate with Henry Earl
of Northumberland, or to hold any coiumunication with him.'
Salvayn was Escheator of the County of York in 1404, and died
in 1423, on the 9th March in which year administration of his
effects was granted to Alice his widow.- By the said Alice, who
was living in 1429, he had three sons; 1. Sir Roger Salvayn,
who died in 1422, and left Alice his daughter and heiress, who
married Henry Wilton ; 2. Sir John Salvayn i 3. Gerard Sal-
vayn of Croxdale in the county of Durham, ancestor of William
Thomas Salvin of Cruxdale, Esquire, who was living in 1812.'^
Sir Gerard Salvayn, aged twenty-eight, armed nine years, said
the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged of right to Sir Richard
Scrope, for he had lieard from old soldiers that he and his ances-
tors had always commonly and publicly borne them from beyond
the time of memory ; and that he saw Sir Richard Scrope twice in
Scotland armed in these arms, and many others of his name and
lineage with dilFerences. He had often, he said, seen these arms,
which were notoriously called the arms of Scrope, in windows and
painted. No man, he added, could remember the first ancestor
of Sir Richard Scrope, they were so ancient a family. He had
never heard of their being interrupted in using these arms, and
never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor or of his ancestors until the
last expedition in Scotland,
The arms of Sir Gerard Salvayn were, Argent, on a chief
Sable, two mullets Or, pierced Vert.'
THOMAS DE SALTMERSSHE, Ebquirb. Of this indi- j
vidual, who was bom about 1346, very little is known. He was ]
probably a member of the family of Saltmersshe of Lincolnshire,
the pedigrees of which are very imperfect. The Deponent served
in the army before Paris in 1360, and subsequently in Scotland;
' Fcedera, It. p' 1, p. 53.
< Pedigree in the MS. muked " Norfolk," vol. iv. f.39, in the College of Anns.
' Herald's Viiitatioiu, and Rolls of Aims temp. Edw. II. aud Edw, III. 8vo. 1829-
342 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Thomas de and he is presumed to have been the Thomas Saltmersshe who in
Saltmerssue»
Esq. 1367 agreed to marry Mary the daughter of Sir John Mou-
bray of KirtUngton in Yorkshire.^ The period of his death has
not been ascertained ; nor has it been discovered whether he left
issue.^
Thomas de Saltmersshe, Esq. aged forty and upwards, said
the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged of right to Sir Richard
Scrope, for he had been armed twenty-five years, and had seen
Sir Richard Scrope so armed, and many others of his name and
lineage with differences, before Paris in presence of the late King ;
and Sir Henry Scrope was there so armed with a white label, with
his banner publicly and notoriously borne. He also saw them
both so armed in Scotland with the late Earl of Warwick. Salt-
mersshe added, that he possessed a charter made by one of the
name of Scrope, ancestor of the said Sir Richard, by which charter
the Deponent held a parcel of the manor of Appelby of the said
Sir Richard Scrope; and the said charter bore date eight score
years and upwards ago ; and he had also divers ancient muniments
to which persons of the name of Scrope were witnesses. He had
keard from his ancestors, and many valiant soldiers then deceased,
that Sir Richard and his ancestors had borne these arms from the
time of the Conquest, and that throughout his country the com-
mon fame was that they had lineally descended to Sir Richard
Scrope. He said upon his oath, that he had never heard of any
challenge to them by, or on behalf of the Grosvenors, nor ever
heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor or of his ancestors, or what arms
they bore or ought to bear, until the commencement of this con-
troversy.
The arms of Thomas de Saltmersshe were, Argent, semee of
cross crosslets, three roses Gules.'
» Abstract of a De«d in Glover's MS. marked A. f. 129, in the College
of Anns.
* In the 11th Hen. VI. 1433, a Thomas Saltmersshe was the husband of Mar-
garet, 8et. 23, the daughter and heiress of Joan Newland, who died in that year
seised of lands in Lincolnshire. Esch. 1 1 Hen. VI.
» Seal attached to the deed dated at Kirtlington in the 41 Edw. III. above
cited. In the Roll of Arms temp. Edw. II. that coat is attributed to Sir Peres de
Saltmerhs of Nottinghamshire.
SIR HICHARU SCROPE. 343
JOHN DE NEULANDE, EsQuiHK. The deposition of this John
. . . Niui.
person shews that he hud served in most of the wars of his time, Kag.
and that he was born about the year 1326. Nothing U known of
his ancestors. He appears lo have been the John de Neulande who
in the 36lh Edw. III. 1362, with his wife Isabel, the daughter and
coheiress of John de Moryn. was a party to a deed.' On the 12th
June 1369, by the description of "John Newlande of Urax," he
received letters of protection, being then abroad in the retinue of
the Duke of Lancaster ;* and it is probable that lie was the John
Newlande of Griuisby in Lincolnshire, who with other gentlemeD
of that county swore to observe the peace of the realm, and to do
nothing to the injury of the Duke of Gloucester and the four other
lords appellants, but to support their cause to the utmost of their
power, in the llth llic. II. 1308.' John dc Neulandedied in the
15th Ric. 11, 1392, seised of a messuage in Merston in Lincoln-
shire, of a messuage in Newland in Yorkshire, and appears to have
possessed the right of holding court baron in the Manor of Drax
in that county,* leaving William his son and heir of full age.* If
the Deponent was the John de Neulande who married Isabel
Moryn above-mentioned, he had a daughter, Ellen, who was the
wife of John Halgate in 1362.'
John de Neulande, Esquire, aged sixty and upwards, armed
forty years, deposed that the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged
to Sir Richard Serope, whom he twice saw in Scotland armed in
the arms in question, and with his banner publicly displayed ;
first with the Lord of Lancaster, and more recently with the now
King; and that he had also seen Sir William Serope in Gascony
so armed with a label. The Deponent did not remember to have
seen Sir Richard or any of his lineage armed elsewhere in all the
great battles and journeys of the late King, because he was in
garrison in Normandy, Brittany, and Burgundy. He had in his
youth heard old knights and esquires say that the ancestors of
Serope were nobles and gentles, and came with the Conqueror:
he never saw Sir Robert Grosvenor or any of his ancestors any-
where in arms before the last expedition of the King in Scotland.
I Note of a Deed in the Visitation of Yorksliire in 1013, MS. nmrked C. 13,
f. 152, in ihe Collie of Anns. ' Fctdera.N. E. iii. p.87i.
» Rot. Par!, iii. 403. * Esch. 15 Itic. II. ii" 49. Vide I'rinled Calendar.
344 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
TH0M45, Prior THOMAS DE' COTYNGHAM, Priok op the Abbey of
OP St. Mary s. ,
St. Mary op York. The mitred Abbey of St. Mary of York is
supposed to have existed as early as 1056 ; but Stephen the first
prior states that it was founded by Alan Earl of Brittany in 1078,
for a fraternity of monks who had originally settled at Lestring-
ham, whence they were expelled at the instigation of William de
Percy.^ In the lists of the priors of that monastery no potice is
taken of a prior of the name of Cotyngham until 1436 or 1437,
when a John Cottingham is said to have been elected.^
Thomas de Cotyngham, Prior of the Abbey of St. Mary of
York, aged sixty and upwards, said the arms of the said Sir Ri-
chard Scrope were from olden time in his abbey, being set up by
the ancestors of Sir Richard : that they are also entire in a chapel
in the Infirmary in a glass window there, and in paintings and
vestments. The said Prior showed an ancient release under the
seal of Geoffrey Lescrope with the arms entire, which acquittance
was without date, but there occurred therein the name ^ Edward
the King,' without mentioning the second or third, so that it
would appear that the release was of the time of the first Edward.
He added, that none of the ancestors of Sir Robert Grosvenor were
buried in his church, nor in any place belonging to his abbey, and
that he never heard of him or of his ancestors.
Thi Prior of THE PRIOR OF MARTON. The Priory of Marton in
jul A RTON
Galtres in the Deanery of Cleveland in Yorkshire, was founded by
Bertram de Bulmer in the reign of King Stephen. The lists of
the priors are very imperfect, and no name occurs between John
de Thresk, who resigned in 1367, and John de Goldesburgh, who
was Abbot in 1436.^
The Prior of Marton, aged sixty-six, deposed that in his
church there were the arms of Scrope, the grandfather of the
present Sir Richard ; which arms entire were set up in the south
side of the church, and in a glass window over the altar of
St. Cuthbert ; and he knew them to be the arms of Sir Richard
Scrope, because they had borne that name ever since he had been
in the Priory. He further said that Sir Alexander de Neville,
' Monasticon Anglicanum, New Edition^ ii. 529.
' Leland's Collectanea, vi. 241, and Drake's History of York, p. 595.
» Mon. Angl. N. E. vi. 197, 198.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 345
uncle to the present Lord Neville, caused a coat of arms to be i
embroidered with his own arms, and the quarters to be all filled
up with small escocheons of the arms of his friends ; on which
coal were the arms of the ancestors of Sir Ralph de Hastings, the
arras of Sir William D'Aton, of the ancestors of St. Quintyn, of
the ancestors of Marmyon, and others. Amongst these were the
arms of Sir Henry Scrope with a white label, and also the entire
arms Azure, a bend Or ; the which coat is preserved in the trea-
sury of the said Priory of Marton in the forest of Galtrea, and the
said Sir Alexander was armed in it at the battles of Kinghorn,
Halidon-hill, and Durham. The Prior added, that two centuries
ago, at the first foundation of their church, there was a knight,
Sir Robert Haket, Lord of Quenby, and of a moiety of the lord-
ship of Cornburgh, who so much loved one of the Scropes, and
the Scrope bore such affection for the said Lord of Quenby, that
the latter caused a window to be made in their church of the arms
of the Lord of Quenby; and the Lord of Quenby had a window
made of the arms of Scrope. The arms of tlie Lord of Quenby
were in one glass window, viz. Argent, a saltire Sable; and in the
other window were those of Scrope, Azure, a bend Or. The De-
ponent had heard from old knights and esquires, and from ancient
priors of the said house, that Sir Richard Scrope was descended
from the Scropes who came with the Conqueror. There was, he
added, no tomb in the Priory of Marton for any of the ancestors
of Sir Robert Grosvenor with these arms, nor had the Deponent
ever heard mention made of him or of his ancestors.
ROGER DE QUIXLEY, Cellarer of the Abbey of Fon- e
TAiMES. The Cistercian Abbey of Fountaines, which was situated
near Rippon, was founded in 1132 by thirteen Benedictine monks
of St. Mary's of York, with the assistance of Thurston Archbishop
of York.' The family of Quixley was of some consideration : a
Thomas Quixley represented the city of York in Parliament in
the 8th Ric. II., and a Simon Quixley was Mayor of York from
the 5th to the 8th Ric. IL*^
Roger de Quixley, Cellarer of the Abbey of Fontaines, being
sent by the Abbot, deposed that he knew the arms of Sir Richard
Scrope, they being at an altar of St. Lawrence in the south part of
■ Mod. Anglic. N. E. v.28e. ' Drake's History of York, p. 356. 361.
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DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
their church above the high altar ; that the said arms with a label
Argent were also painted on a tablet ; that in a lower chamber,
called the Abbot's Chamber, the said arms with a label, were on
glass, and had been there in the time of live abbots or more.
The Deponent exhibited a charter without date, whereby Sir
Geoffrey Scrope enfeoffed the said house of Founlaines of a mea-
Buage in North Street within the city of York, the following being
witnesses thereto : viz. Sir John Mauleverer and Sir John de Don-
kaster. Knights, Thomas de Redenesse, then Mayor of York,
Nicholas Flemmyge, Roger Basy, and John de Sesre, bailiffs, and
others. The seal was in green wax, and had the arms entire with-
out a label. He had, he said, always heard that they were the
arms of Sir Richard, inherited from his ancestora ; and that there
were no tombs nor arms of Sir Robert Grosvenor there, nor of any
of his ancestors.
JOHN DE MANFELD, Pabson of the Chl'rcu op St.
Marv sur Rychillb IK YoRS. This individual was Parson of St.
Mary's as early as 1358, for in that year John de Parys, Parson
of one moiety of the Church of St. Mary the Elder of York, and
John Manfeld, Parson of the other moiety, gave forty shillings for
licence to purchase a house in York for the dwelling of themselveB
and their successors.' In 1359 the King granted to John de
Manfeld, Parson of a raoiety of the Church of St. Mary upon Ry-
chille in York, the custody of all the lands and tenements which
belonged to Master Richard de Inaweshull in York.=
Sir John de Manfeld, Parson of the Church of St. Mary sur
Bychille in York, of the age of sixty-four years, deposed that the
arms of Scrope were in divers places in his church, and in a glass
window of the south part, having in canton on the upper part of
the bend a small lioncel Purpure ; that in the said church were
also divers vestments, in which were sewn on silk, in old times
beyond memory, the entire arms of Scrope ; which arms had
always been reputed to belong to Sir Richard and his ancestors,
and lo have descended in a right line of inheritance, as public
fame testified.
' Rot. Orig. 32 Edw. Til. vol. ii. p. 231.
■ Rot. Ori£. 33 Edw. III. vol. ii. p. 253,
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 347
JOHN DE FERYBY, Under Tbkahubeh op the Cathedral J"'"'
Church of York. A person of this name, and probably the De-
ponent, was appointed a Commissioner for enforcing the observ-
ance of the statutes of Winton and Northampton within the East
Riding of Yorkshire, to inquire into trespasses and felonies, and
to hear and determine the same, on the 6th December 1359- ' It is
said that a Robert de Fcryby, Presbyter, held various livings in
the city of York about that time.*
Sir John de Feryby, Sub-Treasurer of the Cathedral Church
of York, aged fifty-four, deposed that the arms of Sir Richard
Scrope, or of his ancestors, were on the walls of the organ loft in
the Cathedral Church of York with a label Argent ; and that in
the house of Master William de la Mare, a canon of the said
church, there were the arms of Sir Henry Scrope, or of his ances-
tors, with a label Argent ; which arms had been there since the
building of tlie house, beyond memory of any one tlien bving ; and
that they were also in an ancient glass window on the north side
within the hall of the said house. He had never heard to the con-
trary but that they were the Scrope arms, and never saw the arms
of Sir Robert Grosvcnor or of his ancestors, or heard apeak of him
or them until the examination then made at York.
THREE DEPOSITIONS TAKEN AT ATON, PICKERING, AND
AT SCARDEBURGH.
SIR WILLIAM ATON. This venerable personage was s.rW.l
the brother» and heir of Gilbert Baron Aton who died in 1342, *""'
and second son of William de Aton by Isabel daughter and heiress
of Ada de Vere, the sister and coheiress of Roger de Bertram of
Mitford,* and was born about 1299- His deposition, which was
taken at his residence, probably on account of his great age, is
very interesting ; and the slighting manner in which the profession
of the law is mentioned, proves how little any other pursuit, ex-
cepting perhaps the Church, was estimated than that of arms.
■ Feeders, N. E. iii. p. 463. ' Drake's History of York, passim.
' Dugdile, ill hb Baronage, ii. 98, says he was the ioii of Gilbert Baron Alon,
but the dates prove that he must have been bia brother. The pedigrees of Alon are
very imperfect, and there are no inquisitions by which they can be corrected.
' Dugdale's Baronage, i. 544.
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In 13+9 an indenture was made between Geoffrey Abbot of Selby,
and " monsieur William de Aton, chevalier, fitz et heir monsieur
Gilbert de Aton," which witnessed that whereas a debate had
arisen between them respecting the soil whereon the said Abbot
" ad fait planter une estachez de pere et de mereyme en Selby-
water huses en Bardelby pur la revaill en passhege le dit Abbe
illoqes outre lewe de Use," the said Sir William having regard
to the ease and comfort of the persons passing there, willed and
granted that the said Abbot and his successors might hold the
said " estache" quit of him and his heirs for ever, and might
repair the same when necessary, saving to the said William
and his heirs a free passage as he had before that grant.'
On the 10th October 1359, Sir WiUiani Aton was summoned to
attend a council which was to be holden at Westminster during
the King's absence in France,' in which year he was a Commis-
sioner of Array for the Ea&t Riding of Yorkshire,' In 1361 he was
one of the Justices for that district ;* and on the 8th January 1371
he was summoned as a Baron of the Realm to attend a Parliament
at Westminster,* but he never again received a similar writ.
About 1375, Sir AVilliam Aton was engaged in a controversy
respecting his arms. It appears that he bore " Or, on a cross
Sable, five bulls' heads Argent," which coat was assumed by Sir
Robert de Bointon, and challenged by Aton, The dispute was
however terminated amicably, and it seems that Aton was satisfied
with having estabhshed his right to the said arms; for, by in-
denture dated 5th April 1375, which recited, that whereas Sir
William de Aton, " le p^re," had, in the presence of Lord Percy,
challenged the arms borne by Sir Robert de Bointon, namely,
" Or, on a cross Sable, five bulls' heads Argent," and that Lord
Percy had awarded those arms to Aton as " chief des armes
entiers et droit heriter" of the same, Sir William Aton granted
to Bointon and his heirs, that he and they might bear the said
arms without any impediment from him or his heirs.''
Aton was Sheriff of Yorkshire in the 42nd, 43rd, and 46th
Edw. III.' and died before July 1389, when partition was made
of his lands among bis coheirs.' He married Isabel daughter of
I Monasticon AnglicaDum, N. E. iii. 104. ' Fctdeia, iii. p' i. p. 186.
■ Itol. Pat. aa Edw. III. p.2, m,4d. ' Kot. Pari. ii. 450.
* Appendix to the PeeiE^e Reports. * Haileian MS. 117B, f. 44 a.
I
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 849
Henry Lord Percy, and by her, who died before May 1368, had ^
a son William Aton, to whom his maternal uncle, Thomas Percy
Bishop of Norwich, bequeathed a gilt cup.' The said William
Aton, the son of the deponent, was appointed Warden of the North
Marches in the county of NorthimiberIa.nd, and a Commissioner
of Array on the 7th December 1379,- bu t died vit Ji patris before
the 7th Ric. II., leaving Margaret his widow. ^ Tlie daughters and
heirs of Sir William Aton the deponent were, 1. Katherine the wife
of Sir Ralph Evre, ancestor of the Lords Evre; 2. Elizabeth,
who married first William Placye, by whom she had a son. Sir
William Placye, living in the 9tb Ric. 11.; and secondly, Sir
John Conyers of Sockbu'm ; and 3. Anastasia, who married Sir
Edward St. John.' By deed dated at Aton, on the feast of St.
Michael 1385, Sir William Aton granted the manor of Bardelby to
Ralph Evre, John Conyers, and William Placye, knights, for life,
with remainder to the heirs of the wives of tlie said Ralph and
John, namely, Katherine the wife of Ralph Evre, and Elizabeth
late wife of Sir William Placye, father of the said Sir William
Placye, and then tlie wife of John Conyers ;* and on the 32nd July
13th Ric.II. 1389, partition was made of Sir William's lands be-
tween Sir Ralph Evre and Katherine his wife, Anastasia widow of
Sir Edward St. John, and Elizabeth the wife of Sir John Conyers,*
Sir William Aton, aged eighty-seven, armed sixty-six years,
deposed that in his time Sir Henry Scrope, father to the present
Sir Richard Scrope, descended of noble and gentle ancestry, was,
by consent of his parents, put to the law, and became the King's
Justice; but, nevertheless, used in his halls, on his beds, in
windows, and on plate, the arms Azure, a bend Or; that the
said Sir Henry used these anna as his own, as his father had borne
them before him, in tournaments and in other places, as the
fashion then was ; for he, the deponent, had heard his father and
his uncles and ancestors say, that the father of Sir Henry Scrope
the Justice (the which Sir Henry was father of the present Sir
Richard,) and of Sir Geoffrey Scrope, brother of the said Sir
Henry Scrope, and also the King's Justice, was named Sir William
■ CoUina'a Peerage, Ed. 1779, vol. ii. p. 315.
' RoL Scoliic, 3 Ric. II. m. 5.
' \'incent's MS. in ilie College of Arms, marked B. 2. f. 159.
• Copy or a Deed in Glover's Collectanea, A. f. 74.
' Dugdale's Barony, ii. 98.
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360 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Scrope, and that he was in his time the ablest tourneyer of all
their country, and always tourneyed in the arms Azure, a bend
Or, and had been a good esquire and good servant in arms, whilst
an es([uire, and a good *' bohourdeor." ' And moreover that he
had seen the said Sir GeoiTrey Scrope the brother, who was
knighted at the tournament of Northampton in the time of King
Edward the Second ; the which Geoffrey was, in his day, a noble
knight, and tourneyed at that tournament in the same arms with
a while label, performing right nobly, and with his banner ; and
under his banner other knights, whose names the Deponent did
not recollect, tourneyed also. And, after that reign, the late King
Edward the Third commenced liis wars in Scotland ; and there
the said Sir Geoffrey was armed with his banner : after which
began the wars in France, when the said Sir Geoffrey was in the
expedition of the King to Burenfos, and from Burenfos the King
went to the siege of Toumay, and there Sir Geoflrey was armed
in the retinue of the King, in the said arms with a white label.
Sir William Alon added, that wherever he had been armed, he
always saw one or two of the Scropes bearing the arms in ques-
tion ; that since he had ceased to bear arms, he had always heard
that they continued to enjoy them peaceably and with great honour;
and that he had heard from his ancestors that the Scropes and their
arms came over with Robert de Gant at the Conquest, He had
never heard of any challenge being made to the said arms by Sit
Robert Grosvenor, and never saw them borne by the Grosvenors,
neither in the first wars in France, nor in Scotland, nor in tourna-
ments, nor in any other place, and had never heard of their ancestry.
The arms usually attributed to Sir William Aton are, Or, a
cross Sable, which an? the arms of Vesci ; but it appears that the
Deponent, at one period, differenced them by placing five bulls'
heads Argent on the cross.- Before the 8th Ric, II. however, he
relinquished the bulls' heads.'
SIR RICHARD ROUCLIFFE was the son of Sir Richard
Roucliffe of RouclifTe,* and was bom before 1321. Nothing has
' BcBonnDEii, Bohordeii, &c. Lutter, pdaper,cknco\er,jouieT, &c. Roque-
fort's Gloasatre de la Langue Rotnaine.
* In the Roil or Arms temp. Edw, II. uader Westmoreland and Lancaster,
Sir Gilbert Aton is said (o have borne Gules, a cross piil6c Argent. 8>o. 1828.
' Drawing of his seal to the deed of the 8th Hie. II. before ciled,
' Brooke's MS. n" 1. f. 309, and Vincent's MS. n" 110. f. 199 b.
SIR RICHARD SCEOPE. 361
been discovered of his life, excepting what he states in his depo- Sm Ricn«
sition, whence it appears that he was a soldier, who had seen
much service. By Elizabeth daughter of Sir Adam Evering-
ham of Laxton in Nottinghamshire, he had two sons : 1. Sir
David RouclifFe, who was also a witness for Sir Bichard Scrope,'
and said that he derived his information about the arms of Scrope
from his father; he died without issue in the 8th Hen. IV,'' 2,
Sir Richard Roucliife, who also died issueless before 1407;' and
two daughters, namely, Maud, the wife of William Lascelles of
Estrick,' who was found heir to her brother Sir David, in the Sth
Hen. IV. when she was thirty years of age and upwards;^ and
Cicely, wlio married Bigot. ^
Sir Richard Rouclitfe, aged sixty-five, armed fifty-two years,
deposed that he had seen the Scropes bearing tlie arms Azure, a
bend Or, entire or with differences, in all the expeditions, journeys,
and battles since the wars of Baliol in Scotland ; and that it would
be too tedious to mention all the places in which they had since
that time been so armed ; but that he could say, on the oath he
had taken, that in all Yorkshire and Richmond shire they were
held to be gentlemen of ancient lineage; that he could not tell
who was their first ancestor, but they were descended from high
gentry, who, it was said, came with the Conqueror, and had borne
their arras from time immemorial in the presence of kings,
in that of the prince, and before the dukes, earls, barons, and
other lords of England, without challenge on the part of Sir
Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors. In all the expeditions in
which the Deponent had served, in France, Scotland, Brittany,
Normandy, Spain, and Gascony, he had never heard mention of
the ancestors of the Grosvenors, nor, untU this dispute, of the
said Sir Robert, or of any of his lineage.
The arms of RoucHffe were. Argent, a chevron between three
Uons' heads erased Gules,'
JOHN RITHER, Esqdire. The deposition of this indivi- John Rm
dual is one of tlie most interesting that were given in the contro-
versy, as it not only contains notices of his services at the battles
of Scluse, Cressy, and Najara, and in various expeditions in
France, Brittany, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Prussia, but
> Vide p. 215 aniea. ' Esch. 8 Hen. IV, n" 2.
' Brooke's MS. a" 1. f. 309, and Vincent's MS, n" 1 10, f. 19Q b.
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362 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
^N RiTHEB, likewise presents some curious facts of other persons. He was
probably a younger branch of the ancient family of Rither of
Rither near Selby in Yorkshire, but he has not been identified ;
nor can any thing be said with certainty respecting his marriage
or descendants. John Rither was bom about 1320, and was evi-
dently residing at Scardeburgh when examined by the proctor
of Sir Richard Scrope.
John de Rither, Esquire, aged sixty-six, armed since the time
when the late King made his chivauche to Burenfos in Picardy,
deposed that the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged to the family of
Scrope by inheritance; and that he never saw any man do honour
to the said arms excepting of the name of Scrope. He had heard
from his ancestors, and from old knights and esquires, that Sir
Henry, father of Sir Richard, was the King^s Justice, and was of
noble and gentle ancestry,, who were always and immemorially
deemed such in Yorkshire and Richmondshire ; that Sir Richard
and his ancestors had, as he had heard, used the arms in question
at tournaments, particularly at that of Northampton in the time
of King Edward the Second, where Sir Geoffrey Scrope was
knighted, and bore his banner with those arms and a label Argent;
and under him in those arms were knighted Sir John Hodom of
the county of Cambridge^ Sir John Tempest, brother of Sir Ri-
chard Tempest, and Sir Thomas Blount, cousin of the Earl of
Warwick, tourneyed there under him; and Sir GeoflFrey Scrope ac
quired great honour and fame for his conduct at the said tourna-
ment. When the late noble King Edward began his wars with
the King of France, and made an expedition to Burenfos in Picar-
dy, the Deponent saw there Sir Geoffrey Scrope with his banner,
and armed in these arms with a label Argent, and afterwards in
the King'^s retinue at the siege of Tournay. Subsequently, at the
siege of Vannes, he saw Sir Henry Scrope, son of Sir Geoffrey,
armed in his father's arms, and Sir William Scrope, elder brother
of Sir Richard, in the entire arms; and when the siege was
raised, the King appointed the Karl of Northampton warden of
Brittany, and repaired to the siege of Morlaix : at the battle of
Morlaix, the said Sir William Scrope, so armed, was wounded, of
which wound he afterwards died. King Edward then returned to
England, and afterwards went to Melrose in Scotland, and there
was Sir Thomas Ughtred, and, as he believed, Sir William Scrope,
SIB RICHARD SCROPE. 363
brother of Sir Henry Scrope, under his banner. Afterwards he was Jo»
at the battle of Scluse, and there was Sir Henry Scrope with his
banner, in the company of the Earl of Northampton ; and the said
Sir William, brother of the said Sir Henry, was so armed in com-
pany of the said Earl. The next expedition of the King was that
of Hogues, and then ensued the battle of Cressy. At that battle
was Stephen Scrope, brother of Sir Henry, and Sir William Scrope,
also brother of the said Sir Henry, so armed in the said arms with
differences. The Prince was then captain of the vanguard, and
had with him a great number of knights and noble archers of
Cheshire, and the said Sir William and Stephen Scropo bore the
said arms before the whole host, without challenge or a word being
said on the subject. From thence the King proceeded to the siege
of Calais, where Sir Henry was with his banner openly and pub-
licly, and Sir William Scrope and Stephen Scrope were there so
armed by day and night. At the time when Sir Ralph d'Ufford
was Warden of Ireland, he had with him many knights and
esquires, and noble archers of the county of Chester; and the
said Sir Henry had there his banner and coat of arms of the
same arms against the Irish. Sir Henry Scrope with his ban-
ner, and Stephen Scrope armed in these arms, were also at the
siege of Berwick. And after the raising of that siege, the late
Lord of Lancaster went into Brittany, and was Warden of Brit-
tany, and besieged the city of Kennes; at which siege was Sir
Geoffrey Scrope, eldest son of the said Sir Henry, the which Sir
Geoffrey was armed in the same arms with a white label gobony
Gules. Afterwards the noble King made his expedition before
Paris : Sir Henry was there with his banner, and the present Sir
Richard Scrope was there also, armed in the entire arms, in the
company of the Earl of Richmond ; Sir Geoffrey Scrope being
then armed in the same with a difference, in company of the late
Lord of Lancaster. After that expedition peace was made, when
Sir Geoffrey Scrope went, with other knights, into Prussia, and
there, in an affair at the siege of Wellon in Lithuania, he died in
these arms, and was buried in the Cathedral of Konigsberg, where
the said arms are painted in a glass window, which the Deponent
himself caused to be set up, taking the blazon from the arms which
the deceased had upon him. Afterwards, when the Prince fought
the battle of Najara, in Spain, Sir Richard was so armed in that
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Jon» Rmna, battle. And in the expedition c£ the Lord of r*«nc»rter through
France into Gascony, the said Sir Richard was so armed during the
whcie ezpediti€Mi, in company ai the Lord of Lancaster, and pre-
viously at Balyngham Hill, and at the chiyaudie in Caux in Nor-
mandy. Rither added, that he never heard that Sir Robert Gro6-
▼enor or any oi his ancestors had challenged the arms ; nor had he
ever heard at Sir Robert Grosvenor or of any at his ancestors;
but the only challenge he ever heard of was by one Carminowe of
Ccnmwall, who challenged the said Sir Richard when before Paris;
and the late King, and the late Lord of Lancaster, agreed that the
said Sir Richard should bear the arms entire, and that the said Car-
minowe should bear them also : of no other challenge had he e^er
heard.
The arms of Rither, of Yorkshire, were. Azure, three crescents
Or.
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN AT NOmNGHAM BEFORE SIR JAMES
DE PYKERYNGE, TUESDAY, 2- OCTOBER 10 RICH. 1S86,
s» Job» sir JOHN LOUDHAM " the Elder,'' so designated to
distinguish him from Sir John Loudham of Suffolk,^ was the eldest
son of Sir John Loudham who died seised of lands in the counties
at Nottingham, Essex, and Lincoln in the 12th Edw. 11.^ leaving
by Alice daughter of Sir Robert de Eorketon' his son John, the
Deponent, then about four years of age,^ which agrees with the
statement that he was upwards of seventy in 1386.
Loudham'^s deposition contains very little information about
himself; nor can many particulars be stated of his life. He
obtained letters of attorney in May 1355, then going abroad in the
King's service,^ and died in 1388.^ By Isabel, daughter and
heiress of Sir Robert Breton of Walton in the county of Derby ,^
he had issue Sir John Loudham, who was twenty-three years old
at his father'^s decease,^ and died in the 14th Ric. II. without
issue,^ when his sisters Isabella, set. 30,^ who married Thomas de
Bekering,' and Margaret, set. 28,^ the wife of Thomas Foljambe,
> See page 175 anteau ' Esch. 12 Edw. II. n» 45.
' Tboroton's History of Nottingfaamshire, p. 289.
* Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 57. * Esch. 11 Ric. II. n» 34.
* Esch. 14 Ric. II. n<» 36.
sm RICHARD SCROPE. 355
were found to be his heirs. Alice the daughter and heiress of Sm Ji
the said Thomas de Bekering by Isabel Loiidhain, married Sir
Thomas Rempstnn, and by him had three daughters her coheirs.'
Sir John de Loudham the Elder, aged seventy and upwards,
armed fifty years, deposed that he had heard in his youth from
his ancestors and old knights, that Sir Richard Scropc, his uncles
and cousins, had borne the arms Azure, a bend Or, and acquired
great honour therein ; that he saw him so armed in presence of the
late King before Paris ; that Sir Henry Scrope was also there
with the same arms and a label Argent ; and that he never heard
tliat Sir Robert Grosvenor or any of his ancestors had a right
thereto; nor had he ever heard of them until this controversy.
The arms of Sir John Loudham were. Argent, a bend Azure,
crusilly Or.^
SIR WILLIAM MARMION. This individual, who was s.rV
born about 1308, has not been identified ; but he was probably of
a younger branch of the Barons Marmion who held Witringham
and other lands in Lincolnshire, because it is nearly certain that
the Deponent possessed property in that county. His military
services are shown by his deposition ; and all which is known of
him besides is, that on the 30th June 1380 he was commanded to
proclaim in the county of Lincoln, that all tenants should render
to their lords the services which they had been accustomed to do
before the recent disturbances;^ and that in the 11th Ric.II.1387,
he was one of tlie gentlemen of Lincolnshire who swore to support
the Duke of Gloucester and the four other Lords appellant.*
Sir William Marmion, aged seventy -eight, armed sixty-four
years, deposed that he saw and knew Sir William Scrope, elder
brother of Sir Richard, armed in the entire arms. Azure, a bend
Or, at the siege of Vannes ; and that the said Sir Richard was so
armed before Paris, in presence of the King and all the lords there;
that Sir Richard and his ancestors had always used the said arms
in battles and journeys during the whole of the Deponent's time,
and in the time of his ancestors as he had heard from them ; that
' See page 207 anWa.
» Roll of Arms temp. Edw.ll. 8vo. 1828, where that coat is attributed to Sir
John de Loudham of Nottinghamsliire.
' Ftedera, iii. p" iii. p. 121. ' Rot. Pari. iii. 401,
2z3
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356
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Willum
Marmion.
he also saw Sir Henry Scrope, cousin of the said Sir Richard,
with his banner so armed with a label Argent, in France before
Paris, and in Scotland at the relief of Berwick, and others of his
lineage in divers expeditions so armed with differences. He also
testified, in nearly the same words as many of the former witnesses,
to the antiquity of the Scrope family. He had never heard of
any interruption being offered by Sir Robert Gfrosvenor or by any
of his family, of whom he had never heard until very lately.
Sir Gervlys
Clifton.
SIR GERVEYS CLIFTON. The family of Clifton has
long ranked among the most ancient and respectable of English
gentry. Sir Robert Clifton of Clifton in Nottinghamshire, died
in 1327,^ leaving by Emma daughter of Sir William Moton,* the
Deponent, who was then fourteen years of age.^ In 1336 he had
liberty of free warren in his demesne lands in Nottinghamshire :'
in 1339 he was a Commissioner of Array in that county, and again
in 134*4.* He was knighted before 1344,^ and, as appears from
his deposition, served in the wars of his time. Clifton was Sheriff
of Nottingham and Derby in 1345, and in the following year was
Escheator of those counties.* He represented Nottinghamshire in
Parliament in 1348,' and in 1377 obtained the King's writ ex-
empting him from serving on assizes or juries, as well as from the
offices of mayor, sheriff, escheator, coroner, or bailiff, during his
life.' In the 3rd Ric. II. 1379-80, he granted a crest to Richard
de Bevercotes of Bevercotes in the county of Nottingham, to
which deed his arms were attached.^
It is not known when Sir Gervase Clifton died. He was twice
married : first, to Margaret daughter of Sir Robert de Pierre-
pont,^ to whom he was contracted in his childhood;' and secondly,
before 1348, to Isabel daughter of Vincent Herbert, alias Finch,
of Netherfield in Sussex, widow of William Scott of Braboum in
Kent, Esq.* By his first wife he had his son and heir, Robert de
Clifton, who married before 1345,' and was the ancestor of the
present Sir Robert Clifton, Baronet. By liis second wife Sir
» Esch. 1 Edw. III. no 33. » Heralds* Visitations of Nottinghamshire.
' Wotton'^ Baronetage, 1741, vol. i. p. 37.
♦ Rot. Scot. 13 Edw. III. m.3, and 18 Edw. III. m. 9.
* Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire, p. 53.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 8fi7
Gervase had two daughters: Joan, who married John Diggs; and Sir G»i
Isabel, who married John Jerningham. ' ''''"
Sir Grerveys Clifton, aged seventy-four at St. Martin next
coining, armed fifty-two years, deposed that at Antwerp he saw Sir
Geoffrey Scrope armed in the arms Azure, a bend Or, and a label
Argent, and he was then in the retinue of the King with forty men-
at-arms ; that the said Sir Geoffrey was father of the present Sir
Henry Scrope ; that he had heard from his ancestors, in his youth,
that Sir Henry Scrope was armed at the battle of Berwick in the
same arms with a label, and in those arms received the order of
knighthood at that battle ; that he never saw any one use these
arms, or do honour to themselvts therein, excepting the Scropes;
that the Deponent's ancestors frequented tournaments, which
were at that lime schools of arms, and where arms were known ;
and that he never heard any persons mentioned as bearing them
besides the Scropes, or of any challenge on the part of Sir Robert
Grosvenor, or any of his ancestors; for in his time, in all the
places where he had served, he never heard of him or them.
The arms of Sir Gervaae Clifton were. Sable, sem^e of
cinquefoils, a lion rampant Argent.^
SIR SAMPSON STRAULEY. The family of Strai ley, or, s.« Sa.
as the name is more generally written, Stbelley, is of considerable ^'^^"
antiquity in the county of Nottingham, where they held the
manor of Strelley for many centuries.' Sir Robert Strelley died
in the 30th Edw, I. leaving a son of the same name, then twenty-
three years of age,* who married Constance daughter and co-
heiress of William de Felton, and by her is said to have had a
son, Sampson de Strelley the Deponent.' This statement is how-
ever erroneous, as one generation seems to have been omitted.
Sir Robert Strelley, who married Constance Felton, appears to
have had a son, who died in his lifetime, leaving the Deponent
his heir ; for, on the death of the said Sir Robert Strelley in 1353,*
' Wotton'a Baronetage, 1711, vol. i. p. 37.
' Dugdale's Visilation of Noltiiigham shire, a" 1666.
' Vincent's Notlioghaniahre in the College of Anns, p. 230, f. 98, and
Tbototon's History of Notts, • Esch. 30 Edw. I. n" 39.
' Esch. 27 Edw. III. D'ts.
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358
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Sampson
Stbaulby.
Sampson Strelley was found to be his cousin, (evidently grandson,)
and heir, and then nineteen years of age.^ The time of the Depo-
nents birth is thus fixed to about the year 1334, which would
make him fifty-two in 1386, when he is said to have been ^^ xl. et
pluis.*** The word " pluis"^ is, however, often used with great
latitude in the depositions, and sometimes meant ten or even
twenty years.
Sir Sampson Strelley speaks only of having served in the
expedition before Paris in 1360. He was Sheriff of Nottingham
and Derby in 1375,^ and was a Commissioner of Array in the
former of these counties in 1384, and again in 1385.^ He died in
1389 or 1390,* and by Elizabeth daughter of Sir John Hercy^
had Sir Nicholas Strelley his son and heir, who was twenty-seven
years old at his father^s decease,^ and left descendants.^
Sir Sampson de Strauley, aged forty and upwards, armed
twenty-six years, deposed generally to the same effect as the pre-
ceding witness, as to the right of the Scropes to the arms Azure,
a bend Or, by inheritance ; and that he had seen both Sir Richard
and Sir Henry Scrope before Paris, armed in the arms in ques-
tion, without challenge. He had never heard of any chaUenge or
interruption being offered by Sir Robert Grosvenor, or by any
of his ancestors, of whom he never heard before this controversy.
The arms of Sir Sampson Strelley were, Paly of six. Argent
and Azure.^
Sir Edmund
PiBRBXPONT.
SIR EDMUND PIERREPONT. As the lineal ancestor
of individuals who attained the highest honours to which a sub-
ject can aspire, this Deponent excites more than usual interest.
Few facts however are recorded of him, and these are by no means
important. He was the son of Sir Edmund Pierrepont, who died
in Gascony in 137d, by Joan daughter and sole heiress of Sir
George Monboucher of Gomulston in Nottinghamshire, and was
» Esch. 27 Edw. III. n" 45. • « Harleian MS. 259, f. 59 b.
' Rot. Scoc. 7 Ric. II. m. 4, and 8. Ric. II. m. 9 and 10.
* Esch. 13 Ric. II.
* Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire, p. 230, and Vincent's Nottingham-
shire in the College of Arms, f. 98.
* Roll of Arms temp. Edw. III. 87o. 1829.
^
SIR RICHARD SCBOPE. 359
descended from an ancient and distinguished line of ancestry.' Sm En»
Sir Edmund was born about 1346, and served on various occasions
in the army in France and Scotland. The time of his death is not
ascertained. He married Frances daughter and coheiress of Sir
William Frank of Grimsby in Lincolnshire, and had a son. Sir
Henry Pierrcpont, who represented Nottinghamshire in Parlia-
ment in the 5th and 9tli Hen. V. and was the ancestor of the
Barons Pierrcpont, Viscounts Newark, Marquesses of Dorchester,
and Earls and Dukes of Kingston, as well as of the present Earl
Manvers.'
Sir Edmund Pierrepont, aged forty, armed seventeen years,
deposed that the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged to Sir Richard
Scrope by right of inheritance, because he had heard from his
ancestors that Scrope was descended from ancient gentry ; that
he had heard from old knights and esquires who had served in the
old wars, that the family of Sir Richard were armed at one place
or another during all the wars of the late King. He said he saw
Sir Richard Scrope armed in these arms at Balingham Hill in the
presence of the Lord of Lancaster, in the expedition in Caux, and
twice in Scotland, and with his banner; that he had heard the
oldest lords and knights say, that they had never heard mention of
Sir Robert Grosvenor or of his ancestors, before the commencement
of the present dispute in the King's expedition in Scotland.
The arms of Sir Edmund Pierrepont were. Argent semce of
cinquefoils Gules, a lion rampant Sable.'^
SIR WILLIAM NEVILL of Pickhall. The Nevills of ^^^^""^^^
Pickhall in Yorkshire were also lords of the manors of Holt in
Leicestershire and Rolleston in Nottingham shire, and are occa-
sionally described of each of those places. They sprung from
Henry Nevill, Chamberlain to Henry the Second, and were one of
the most ancient families in this coimtry.' The Deponent was the
son of Sir Andrew Nevill by CeeUia daughter and heiress of Ralph
Blanch minster. Lord of the Scilly Isles,' and was born about 1338.
Many notices occur in records of a Sir William Nevill in the
' Collios's Peerage, Ed. 17S6, vol. i, p. SI4.
' Roll of Arms temp. Edw. III. 8vo. 1829.
= Nichols's History of Leicesiersliire, ii. 730, and Thoroton's Hialoiy of Not-
tingbamshiie, p. 334.
^^
360 » DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir William reigns of Edward the Third, Richard the Second, and Henry the
J^ KVILL»
Fourth, but it is difficult in some cases to determine whether they
relate to this individual, or to his contemporary Sir William Ne>
vill, the uncle of the first Earl of Westmoreland.
Sir William Nevill of Pickhall's military services are shown
by his deposition, and on that subject nothing can be added. In
1384-5 he was a Commissioner of Array for the county of Not-
tingham,^ which situation he again filled in 1389 ;^ and it is pro-
bable that he was the Sir William Nevill who in the 8th Ric. II.
was ordered to inspect certain men-at-arms and archers at Ber-
wick, to examine the fortifications of that town, and to take mea-
sures for the repairs of the same.* Dugdale* considers that the
person of this name, who was Knight of the King'*s Chamber and a
Commissioner to treat with the Scotch for a truce about that
time,^ was the uncle of the Earl of Westmoreland ; but this is by
no means certain.^
On the 4th January 1388 the Deponent, being then Constable
of Nottingham Castle, was entrusted with the custody of Sir Simon
Burley.7 He is last noticed in September 1405, when he was a
Commissioner for raising money in the county of Nottingham for
the King^s service :^ the date of his decease has not been disco-
vered. By the daughter aud heiress of Sir Thomas Fancotte he left
a son. Sir Robert Nevill, who succeeded to his estates. His de-
scendant. Sir Thomas Nevill of Holt, had an only daughter, Mar-
garet, the wife of Thomas Smyth of Cressing Temple in Essex,
who assumed the name of Nevill, and was represented in 1797 by
Cosmas Nevill of Holt, Esq.^
Sir William Nevill of Pickhall, aged forty-eight, armed seven-
teen years, deposed that he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed in the
arms Azure, a bend Or, at Balyngham-hill in Caux, with the
* Rot. Scot. 8 Ric. II. m. 9, wherein he is described " of Rolleston."
« Rot, Scot. 12 Ric. II. m. 6. » Rot. Scot. 8 Ric. II. m. 6.
* Baronage, i. 295. * Rot. Scot. 8 Ric. II. m. 6, and 9 Ric. II. m. 3.
« A Sir William Nevill was Admiral of the King's Fleet in the 48th Edw. III.
(Rot. Orig. ii. 332) ; a Commissioner to treat with the King of France in October
1383, (Foedera, iii. p» iii. 160); and Executor of the will of Joan Princess of
Wales in 1385, and of the will of Guichard Earl of Huntingdon, in 1380, (Tes-
tamenta Vetustai) ^ Foedera, iii. p* iv. p. 18.
* Fcedera, iv. p* i. p. 88. • Nichols's History of Leicestershire, ii. 730.
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SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 361
Lord of Lancaster, and twice in Scotland, with hia banner pub- Sm Vti,
licly displayed ; that he hod heard from his ancestors, and other
old knights and esquires, that the said arms belonged to the
Scropes from the time of the Conquest. He said that he had seen
tombs of the ancestors of Sir Richard in the Abbey of St. Agatha
in Richmond shire, and in the Abbey of Coverham, and on them,
and in abbeys, priories, and churches, in the counties of York and
Richmond, and elsewhere, were these arms depicted on glass.
The Deponent had never heard of any challenge by Sir Robert
Grosvcnor or his ancestors, nor had he ever heard of him or them
before the late expedition into Scotland.
The arms of Sir William Nevill of Pickhall were. Gules, a
aaltire Ermine.'
DEPOSITION TAKEN AT LEICESTER BEFORE THE SAID
COMMISSIONERS ON THE 4"' OF DECEMBER IN THE
SAID YEAR.
SIR RALPH FERRERS. This very distinguished person s
was a younger son of William first Lord Ferrers of Groby in Lei-
cestershire, by Helen daughter of John Lord Segrave,^ and was
born about the year 1314. The earliest notice which has been
found of him is, that he was at the siege of Calais in 1346 with a
retinue of one knight and two esquires.^ In 1350 he was sent by
the King, with some lords and forty other knights, to Bordeaux,
to the relief of St. John de Angely, which was then besieged by
the French. An action took place near the bridge of Taillebourg;
but having failed in preserving the town of St. John de Angely,
they returned to England in August 1351,* It appears that Fer-
rers was at the battle of Poictiers; for Froissart states that he
was one of the relations of Sir James de Audley, who were present
■ MonumeoU at Holt, and other authorities.
' Viocenl's Warwick in the College of Arms, f. 182. His position in the
pedigree of Ferrers of Groby is proved by the dales, aud by Edward Lord De-
spenser, who married Anne the daugliler of Henry second I/Jrd Ferrers of Groby,
leaving a legacy in November 1375 lo his " uncle, Sir Ralph Ferrers," Testa-
meola Veluatu, p. 99. ' Coltonian MS. Tiberius E. ix. f, 53.
♦ Froissart, par Buchon, iii, p. 27 — 33.
VOL. II. 3 A
1
362 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Ralph when he generously transferred the Prince's irift of 600 marks
Ferrers. . . .
a year, in reward of his gallantry on that occasion, to his four
esquires.^ On the 6th March 1358 he was appointed Captain of
the Town and Castle of Calais and of Puisnes.^ Whilst filling
that office, it seems that he distinguished himself by the gallant
defence of the Castle and Town of Arde against a valiant assault
of the enemy.' In July 1370 Sir Ralph Ferrers was Admiral of
the fleet which conveyed Sir Robert Knolles and his army to
France ;♦ and on the 6th October 1371 he was nominated Admiral
of the King''s Fleet towards the North.* He was Warden of the
Western Marches of Scotland, and Conservator of the truce with
that country in the same year ;^ aild by the designation of " Ban-
neret*" was a Commissioner to treat for peace with France in Janu-
ary 1372J On the 10th June 1373 he was made Captain of the
King^s barges ;® and in August 1374 he was a Commissioner to
determine certain disputes between Henry Lord Percy and the
Earl of Douglas respecting the forest of Jedworth.^
Sir Ralph was one of the Commissioners for the punishment of
infractions of the truce with Scotland in 1375,^® and a Conservator
of the truce with France in 1376.^^ In the same year he was one of
the mainpernors in Parliament of Lord Latimer,^ and was requested
by the commonalty of Cumberland to give his testimony as to the
state of Carlisle.^' He was a trier of petitions in the first Parlia-
ment of the reign of Richard the Second ;^^ and on the day after
the King's coronation was appointed a member of his council.^
Id April 1378 he was a Commissioner to receive possession of the
Castle of Brest, which was surrendered by the Duke of Brittany ;*^
and in June following was ordered to muster the men-at-arms and
archers, who were about to serve under John King of Castile.^^
' Froissart par Buchon, iii. 242.
* Foedera, iii. p» i. p. 164, and Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 67.
* Rot. Pari. iii. 12. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 102.
* Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 105. • Rot Scot 45 Edw. III. m. 3.
^ Foedera, iii. p* ii. p. 21 0. • Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 111.
' Rot. Scot. 48 Edw. III. m. 2, and Fcedera, iii. p' iii. p. 20.
"» Rot. Scot. 49 Edw. III. m. 2. " Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 118.
»• Rot. Pari. ii. 327. »* Rot. Pari. ii. 345.
" Rot. Pari. iii. 4. »• Foedera, iii. p» iii. p. 64.
" Foedera, iii. p« iii. p. 76. " Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 126.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
One of the most singular entries on the Rolls of Parliament Sik It.
are the details of a conspiracy against Sir Ralph Ferrers, the
object of which was to convict him of holding a traitorous corre-
spondence with the French. He was arrested on this charge by
the Duke of Lancaster and other lords, in the Marches of Scot-
land, in ISttO, and brought before the Parliament which met at
Northampton in November in that year. The proofs consisted of
various letters, some of which were said to have been written by
him and sealed with his seal, directed to certain persona in France;
and others were addressed to him by those individuals, containing
political information. This correspondence was found in 6elds
near Ijondon, and taken to the mayor of that city, who forwarded
them to the Privy Council, by whom they were presented to
Parliament. Copies of tliese letters are given on the Rolls of
Parliament, and if genuine, they would clearly have established
Ferrers'a guilt. He appeared in Parliament in custody of the
Earl Marshal, and was questioned respecting these letters, when
he prayed to be allowed counsel; but he was told, that, as this
matter was of a treasonable nature, the law permitted him no
other counsel than God and himself, and he was commanded to
answer at his peril. He observed in his defence, that all persons
ought to consider him innocent, for that he had from his youth
served in the King's wars in presence of many noble lords of the
realm; that he had also been Captain of Calais and of other for-
tresses abroad, when he might have been well paid if he had be-
trayed his liege lord, which God forbid ! and thanks to God he
had never done so ; that it was notorious that after other captains
of castles and fortresses had surrendered them in Poitou to the
French monarch in consequence of threats, he had long held
the fortress committed to his charge, and yielded it neither to
summons, assault, nor siege, though he received many letters
from the late King authorizing him to give it up ; and that it
must be evident that if he had wished to be disloyal he would
have been so when it was infinitely more to his advantage than at
that time. To this it was observed, that it was more useful to the
French to have such a person as himself in their interests in the
King's Council, than to possess the town of Calais or any other
fortress ; and he was again desired to reply finally, at his peril, and
to state expressly whether he admitted or denied that thoi^e letters
*S
364 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Ralph were his, bearing in mind what he had said on the subject when he
was first arrested, at which time he said that these letters appeared
bv their seals to be his letters, and sealed with the seal of his
arms. Ferrers replied, that he did not remember having ever
acknowledged the letters to be his ; and that if any man would
assert that they were written by him, or with his knowledge in any
manner whatever, he would gainsay it with his body as a knight
ought to do. He was told, that this was nothing to the purpose,
for no one accused him, but only that the contents of these letters
under his name, and sealed with his arms, as it appeared, imported
that he had committed treason; and he was once more commanded
at his peril to answer. Sir Ralph then said that these letters were
never either written or sealed with his knowledge or consent, nor
was he ever privy or assenting thereto ; and added that he never
saw them until they were shown him by the Lords in the Marches,
as he was ready to prove in any reasonable way the law would
adjudge. He was then commanded to return to prison, and was
informed that in the mean time the subject would be considered.
The Parson of firington in Northamptonshire, and others of his
household, as well as the beggar who found the letters, all of
whom had been imprisoned in London in consequence of this
affair, together with John Haddeley, Mayor of London, .to whom
the letters were brought, were then ordered to appear before Parlia-
ment, and were strictly examined by the Judges and other "sages,''
appointed for the purpose, who were ordered to inquire into the
truth of the matter ** on peril of their souls.'' After comparing
the letters with other authentic letters, and the impression of the
seal with Ferrers's own seal, they came to the conclusion that the
letters so found were forged by some malicious persons with the
view of injuring the accused. Sir Ralph Ferrers was therefore
declared innocent by the Lords then present in Parliament; and
at their request he was delivered to the Earls of Warwick, Staf-
ford, Salisbury, and Northumberland, Lord Grey de Ruthyn, and
the Prior of Jerusalem, who pledged themselves to produce him to
the Council at any time before the next Parliament the King
might think proper. He was consequently permitted to go at
large; and the letters, together with his real seal, which was of
silver, were given to the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, to be
brought forward in case any thing more was said to Sir Ralph on
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SIR RICHAllD SCROPE. % 365
the subject. The beggar who pretended to have found the letters '
was committed to prison on suspicion of being concerned in the
plot ; but the Parson of Brington and the other servants of Sir
Ralph, were released on bail.' In the next Parliament, which
met in November 1381, Ferrers's mainpernors prayed to be re-
leased from their engagement, stating that he was then present to
answer whatever might be charged against him, which request was
complied with; and Sir Ralph being then in Parliament, the King
" avoit et tenoit son foil lige et pur excusez" respecting the said
letters.'^ The "Chronicle of London" contains the following notices
of Sir Ralph Ferrers, and attributes his impeachment to a different
cause. " Anno 2 Ric. II. 1387. In this yere in the morwe after
St. Lawrence day was Robert Hawle sclayn in the chirche of West-
minster be Sir Aleyne Boxley, Sir Rauf Fereres, and Markle,
whiche was sithen a sergeaunt at armes."' "Anno 3. In this yere
were galeys in Tharayse, and brende Gravesend and Tilbury, for
which cause Sir Rauf Ferreis was apeched."
Excepting that Ferrers was examined as a witness for Sir
Richard Scrope, and that an inquisition was taken respecting cer-
tain lands that he held in Calais in the 23nd Ric. II., from which
it would appear that he was then dead, nothing more has been
discovered respecting him. It is remarkable that he is not men-
tioned by Dugdale, and that his name occurs in very few pedi-
grees of his family.
Sir Ralph de Ferrers, aged seventy-two, armed 6fty-four years,
deposed generally as to the right of the Scropes to the arms
Azure, a bend Or, and to the gentility and antiquity of the family
from the time of the Conquest. He had lieard from his ances-
tors, who were aged, that the ancestors of Sir Richard Scrope
used these arms in tournaments in presence of kings and noble
lords of the realm, which were the schools for the knowledge of
arms; and that the ancestors of the said Sir Richard obtained great
praise at the tournaments of Northampton, Guilford, Newmarket,
and Dunstable. The Deponent being armed in the wars of the
late King at the siege of Tournay, he there saw Sir Geoffrey
Scrope so armed, with a. white label. Ue said that it was the cus-
' RoL Pari. iii. 90—93. ■ lloL Pari, iii, 105.
' Some farther particulars of lliis afiair will be found in the notice of John
Schakel, Esq. in a aubsequenl p^e.
366
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Ralph
Ferrers.
torn in ancient times that in royal expeditions made by the King,
and in places where the King challenged prerogative, the King
took with him his Chief Justice of the Swing's Bench to perform
his office as other officers do in their offices ; that Sir Geoffrey
Scrope, Chief Justice of the King, was there, and the King com-
manded him to raise his banner at the said siege, who had then in
his retinue in that expedition forty lances under his banner ; and
that in the said expedition every liege and gentle person had some
of their blood and affinity with them. He had since seen Sir
Geoffrey his son armed in the said arms in France, and others of
his lineage, bearing those arms, without challenge, in the Eing^s
expeditions. He also saw Sir Richard armed in the same arms
entire at the battle of Berwick in Scotland, and in France before
Paris, and others of his name and lineage. Ferrers added, that
he had been armed in Scotland, France, beyond sea in Ireland, and
elsewhere, and never heard speak of Sir Robert Grosvenor or of
his ancestors, nor of any right which they possessed to the arms
Azure, a bend Or.
The arms of Sir Ralph Ferrers were. Gules, seven mascles,
three, three, and one Or, within a bordure engrailed.^
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN ON THE 12*»' OCTOBER 10 RICH. 1386,
IN THE CHURCH OF ST. MARGARET AT WESTMINSTER,
BEFORE SIR JOHN DE DERWENTWATER.
Sir Maurics
DE Bruyn.
SIR MAURICE DE BRUYN. This Deponent has not
been clearly identified, but he is presumed to have been a younger
son of Maurice le Bruyn who was summoned to Parliament as a
Baron from the 6th to the 15th Edw.II. and died in 1354, leaving
Sir William Bruyn his son and heir, who left descendants. Of
Sir Maurice the Deponent little is known besides what he himself
states in his deposition. It appears that he was born about 1326,
and he seems to have served in many expeditions in Scotland,
France, Gascony, Brittany, Normandy, Spain, and Prussia, and
was present at the relief of Berwick, at the sieges of Vannes, Tour-
nay, and Calais, as well as at the battle of Cressy. In 1369 he paid
five marks for licence to purchase for life the manor of Shaw near
' Vincent's Warwick, in the College of Arms.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 367
Newbury ;' and in 1378 or 1379 was one of the persons who were Sm m*cbi( e
appointed to defend the coasts of the county of Southampton.^
In the 7th Ric. II. he granted to WiUiam Ringborn and John
Payne all his right in the manor of Charlton Marshal in the
county of Dorset, wJiich belonged to William de Bruyn in the
29th Edw. I. and to Maurice de Bruyn junior, in the 20th Edw.
III.' The time of his death is unknown, nor can any thing be
said of his marriage or descendants.
Sir Maurice de Bruyn, aged sixty and upwards, armed forty-
eight years, deposed that he had never seen any one use the arms
borne by Sir Richard Serope excepting the said Sir Richard and
his ancestors, such as his father, his uncle, his cousins, and elder
brother; and if any others had used them they would have been
at some time exhibited in Scotland, France, Gascony, Brittany,
Normandy, Spain, beyond the great sea, or in Prussia, or in some
other place where wars had been carried on. The Deponent never
knew or saw any of the ancestors of Sir Richard besides his
father, whom in his youth the Deponent saw, though not armed.
But Sir Geoffrey Serope, his brother, uncle of Sir Richard, was
armed in the arms Azure, a bend Or, with a white label, at the
commencement of the wars between the Kings of England and
France, as many other knights and esquires could testify. The
Deponent saw Sir Richard or others of his lineage so armed in
divers places in Scotland, at the rebef of Berwick, in France, at
the siege of Toumay, on a banner at the battle of Creasy, on a
banner at the siege of Calais, at the siege of Vannes, in the expe-
dition of the late King Edward before Paris, and other places
which he did not then remember, where he saw them use these
arms wiih great honour. He had never heard of Sir Robert
Grosvenor, or of his ancestors, until this dispute.
The arms of Sir Maurice Bruyn, who was summoned to Par-
liament in the reign of Edward the Second, were Azure, a fer de
mouline Or.*
SIR JOHN EYNESFORD, alias EYLESFORD, was the s,b .fohv
son of Hugh, the son of Richard de Eylesford ; and besides other
' Rot. Orig. 43 Edw.III. vol. ii. p. 30.5. ' Rot. Pat. 2 Ric, 11. p. 2. m. 30 d.
' Ilutchins's History of Dorset, iii. 137.
' Roll of Arms temp. Edw. U.Qvo. 1B28.
1
•1
368 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir John lands, Dossessed the manor of TuUington in Herefordshire,^ of
EyNFSFORD. 1.111 !• 1 1 1
which place he was usually designated. He was born about the
vear 1322, and served on various occasions in the wars of Scot-
land and France, but does not appear to have distinguished him-
self by any remarkable action, nor has any thing more been
discovered respecting him. The Deponent died in 1395 or 1396
without issue,* and his cousin, John de Eynesford, the son of Sir
John Eynesford, son of Edmund, son of Gerard de Eynesford,
brother of Richard, the Deponents grandfather, was found to be
his heir, and then three years of age.^
Sir John Eynesford, aged sixty-four, was armed first in Scotland
when the Earl of Cornwall was there, and when the late King was
before St. Johnstone [Perth], at which time he was, he said, in the
Kings's company. He had heard that the arms Azure, a bend Or,
descended lineally to Sir Richard Scrope ; and, during the long
period in which they had been borne by his ancestors and cousins
in divers expeditions in the Kings's company, and elsewhere, it was
surprising that the ancestors or relations, or cousins, or friends, of
Sir Robert Grosvenor, seeing them so borne on banner and coat-
armour, had not challenged those who bore them. The Deponent
saw Sir Geoffrey Scrope armed with these arms and a label Argent,
at Burenfos, the first time the King took arms against the French ;
and on that occasion the King commanded him to raise his banner.
The Deponent saw also the arms used entire in Scotland, France,
and Brittany, and other places, and never heard to the contrary
but that they were called and reputed to be the arms of Scrope.
He did not know which of the ancestors of Sir Richard first bore
the arms, but they were always held to be gentlemen, and were in
peaceable possession of the said arms wherever he the Deponent
was armed, and in the King's royal expeditions. He had never
. heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors until this dispute.
The arms of Sir John Eynesford were. Gules, a fret engrailed
Ermine.'
» Esch. 19Ric. II. n° 22.
* The John Eynesford who married Margery daughter and heiress of Sir Roger
Bellers (which Margery was found heir to her mother, and thirty-six years of age
in the 15th Ric. II.) may have been the Deponent. Vide Esch. 15 Ric. II. n° 5,
' Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. db9
SIB STEPHEN DE HALES. This knight was a person Si^"^»^^^
of some consideration in Norfolk, in which county he held the
manor of Hales. He was probably the son of William de Hales,
who was living at Hales in the 20th Edw. III. 1346, and manu-
mitted some villains there in 1351.'
Sir Stephen Hales was born about 1336, and first served in the
sea-fight with the Spaniards near Win chel sea in 1350; after which
time he seems to have been present in most of the expeditions of
the reign of Edward the Third. He particidarly mentions that he
was in the expedition before Paris in the spring of 1360, at the
battle of Najara in 1367, and in the army which invaded Scotland
in i;J«5. In 1377 or 1378 lie was commanded to restore to Alan
de Ballone, a Scotch merchant, certain merchandises which had
been seized on the coast of Norfolk ;* and during the insurrection
in that county in the early part of the reign of Richard the Second
he was taken prisoner by the rebels.' Sir Stephen Hales was
elected a knight of the shire for Norfolk in the Parliament which
met at Westminster on the 1st October 1386 ;' and was examined
there on the 12th of that month whilst attending Parliament. The
time of his death has not been ascertained : he left no issue, and
his brother Thomas de Hales was his heir, whose daughter and
heiress Elizabeth married William Rokewood of Warham, Esq.
Their son William Rokewood died in 1+74, leaving his daugh-
ters his coheirs; of which daughters Agnes married Sir Nicholas
Appleyard, and had issue.'
Sir Stephen Hales, aged fifty, first armed at the battle of
Espagnols sur nier, said he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure,
a bend Or, when under the late King before Paris ; and in Spain
at the battle of Najara ; and in the King's expedition before Paris
he also saw Sir Henry Scrope's banner with a white label, and
others of his blood in divers places so armed with differences.
In the last expedition into Scotland he saw Sir Richard Scrope
with his banner. He had heard his friends and old men say
that the Scropes were noble and great gentlemen ; and in his
youth he heard an old man of the county of York assert that the
ancestors of Sir Richard and of Sir Henry were the most able
' Blomefield'a History of Norfolk, folio edition, vol. ». p. 927.
' Hot. Scot. 1 llic. II. m.2. = Hot. Ulaus. 10 Kic. II. m. 16 d.
370
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Stephen
OE Hales.
tourneyers of the north country, and from old knights and
esquires that they had immemorially borne the arms in dispute.
The Deponent further said, that during all his time Sir Richard
Scrope was in company of the Prince wherever he was armed, on
which occasions he had with him knights and esquires from Che-
shire, who were armed in their proper arms; but he never saw any
knight or esquire armed Azure, a bend Or, excepting of the name
of Scrope, or ever heard of any other until the last expedition in
Scotland. He had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of his
ancestors, until the commencement of this dispute.
The arms of Sir Stephen Hales were. Sable, a chevron between
three lions rampant. Argent.^
Sir Edward
Dalynorigge.
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN BEFORE SIR JOHN DE DERWENT-
WATER ON THE 15*»" OF OCTOBER, IN THE REFECTORY
OF THE ABBEY OF WESTMINSTER.
SIR EDWARD DALYNGRIGGE. This individual was
the son of Roger Dalingrigge,* the representative of an ancient
family in the county of Sussex, and was bom about the year 1346.
He served in various expeditions in the reign of Edward the Third,
in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel ; but he does not appear to
have been engaged in public affairs until after the accession of
Richard the Second. On the 2nd May 1380 he was one of the
Commissioners who were appointed to inquire into the state of the
Realm and the expenses of the King''s household:' he was elected
a knight of the shire for Sussex in the Parliament which met at
Westminster on the 1st October 1386,* on the 15th of which
month he was examined at that place on behalf of Sir Richard
Scrope. In April 1390 he was associated with some other persons
as Commissioners to conclude a truce between the Kings of France
and England and their respective allies ;^ and on the same day v^as
nominated a Commissioner to survey the castles and fortresses of
Calais and others in Picardy,^ as well as to treat with the Flemish
towns \^ and on the 26th of May following he was one of the
' Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling.
« Esch. 21 Hen. VI. n« 52. * Fcedera, iii. p» iii. p. 98, and Rot. Pari. iii. 73 b.
* Rot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d. * Foedera, iii. p* iv. p. 56.
• Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 162, ^ Foedera, iii. p* iv. p. 57.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 371
personages who affixed their seals to a letter to the Pontiff respect- ^J" ^
ing the horrible excesses of the Court of Rome.^ To these facts all
that can be added is, that he was one of the executors of Edward
Lord Le Uespenser in November 1375 ;- that in the Gth Ric. II. he
obtained a grant of a market and fair in his manor of Bodyham
in the county of Sussex ;' that in the 9th Ric. 1!. he was permit-
ted to build a castle there;* and that in June 1392, when the
King imprisoned the Mayor and Sheriffs of London, he appointed
Dalyngrigge Governor of the city ; but he was superseded on the
22nd July following by Sir Baldwin Radyngton, in consequence of
being suspected of favouring the Londoners.*
Sir Edward Dalyngrigge having married Elizabeth daughter
and heiress of John Wardieu of Northamptonshire, the escheator
of that county was ordered in 1377 to take their fealty on the
death of the said John Wardieu for lands in Sywell ;^ and in the
2nd Ric. II. the King restored to him, and the said Elizabeth his
wife, and to her heirs, the custody of the forest of Rutland.^ By
her, who was living in the (ith Ric. II.* tl»e Deponent had a son,
Sir John Dalyngrigge, who made his will on the 22nd June 1417,
being then about to sail from Sandwich in Henry the Fifth's
second expedition into France." He died without issue,' and
settled his lands, after the death of his wife Alice, the daughter of
Sir John Beauchamp of Powyk,'" on Richard" and William Da-
lyngrigge,^^ the sons of his uncle Walter. His widow, who died
on the 8lh February 1443,» left Ralph Lord Boteler of Sudley,
her BOD by Sir Thomas Boteler her first husband, her heir."
' Fddera, iii. p' iv. p.S9- The parties lo this letter were, ihree dukes, ten
earls, six boroDs, and riine knights. ' TesCamenta Velusta, p. 100.
' Esch. 6 Ric. 11. n° 130. ' Rot. Pa.1. 9 Hie. II, p. 1, m. 22.
' Stow's Chron. p. 306. * Esch. 51 Edw. I II. n" 30 ; RoL Orig. ii. 350.
' Rot. Pat. 2 Ric. II. p. 1, m. 13.
' A copy of ihe Will of Sir John Dalyn|rigge occurs in the inquisition on the
death of his widow in the 21st lien. VI. n° S2. » Esch. 21 Hen. VI. n" 52.
'" Philipot's MS. marked with a mullet, in the College of Amu, folio 80 b.
" Margaret, the mother of this Richard Dalyngrigge, was thrice married ;
namely, lo Walter Dalyngrigge, to William Mowbray, and lastly, to Sir William
Cheyney, and died in the Tth Hen. V. Vide Esch. 7 Hen. V, n° 73. Her son and
lieir, Richard Dalyngrigge, who «as then upwards of twenty-one years of age, died
in the 91h Edw. IV. Esch. eod. ann, n" 48. In Ihe lUtb Hen. IV. be was found to
be heir to his father's sister, Katherine the wife of John Steveoes. Esch. 12 Hen.
IV. n" 10. ■' He died without issue male. Esch. 21 Hen. VI. n" 52.
3b2
372 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Edward According to a pedigree in the College of Arms,^ Sir Edward
Dalyngrigge had also a daughter, Philippa, the wife of Sir Rich-
ard Bemers and mother of Margaret, who married Sir John
Bourchier Lord Bemers; but this statement is rendered ex-
tremely doubtful by the Will of Sir John Dalyngrigge in 1417,
in which instrument he takes no notice whatever of any sister; and
from the manner in which he settled his property, it would seem
that he had no relations on his father''s side, excepting the chil-
dren of his uncle, Walter Dalyngrigge.
Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, aged forty, said, that the arms Azure,
a bend Or, belonged to Sir Richard Scrope, and that they came
to him by direct descent from his ancestors, as he had heard the
late Earl of Arundel say, when he was with the Earl in his youth.
He had seen Sir Richard and many of his cousins so armed
with diflTerences, in royal expeditions before Paris with the late
King, and also, as he had heard, in Spain ; in the expedition
of the Lord of Lancaster in Caux ; and in the great expedition of
that Lord through the Kingdom of France to Bordeaux, as well
as in Brittany when the Earl of Buckingham was there, and in
Scotland in the last expedition of the King, as many knights
and esquires older than himself have told him. The late Earl
of Arundel often mentioned to the Deponent that the ancestors
of Sir Richard were come of noble and generous blood, and had
always borne their name and sustained their rank with honour
and integrity from time beyond memory. He had never heard of
any interruption by Sir Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors to the
use of the arms by the Scropes, nor had he ever heard of him or
them until this dispute commenced.
The arms of Dalyngrigge were, Argent, a cross engrailed Gules.
Sir William SIR WILLIAM MOIGNE. Families of the name of
Moigne held lands in the counties of Sussex, Dorset, Wilts, York,
and Huntingdon, in the reign of Edward the Third. The Depo-
nent was undoubtedly a member of the Huntingdonshire house ;
but nothing is known of his ancestry besides the fact that they
possessed the manor of Sawtrey le Moyne in that county in the
time of Edward the First ; and that a Sir William Moigne of
Huntingdonshire is mentioned in a roll of arms which was com-
» Vincent's MS. n* 124.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 373
piled about the year 1310, as bearing Azure crusilly, and a dan- S
cette Argent-'
The Deponent was born in or before 1326; in 1346 he was
at the siege of Calais, and in 1360 was in the army with which
Edward the Third appeared before Paris. He was retained to
serve in Acquitaine, with two esquires and three archers, in 1363;-
and in 1367, being atill there, he received letters of protection.'
Sir WJlIiam Moigne slates, that he was at the battle of Najara in
1367; and it would seem from his deposition, that he had shared
the honours of Cressy. At the time of giving his testimony in the
Scrope and Grosvenor controversy he was attending Parliament as
Knight of the Shire for Huntingdon.* By a deed dated at Saw-
trey on the 22nd November 15 llic. II. 1391, Thomas Grendale of
Fenton, cousin and heir of John Beaumys, late of Sawtrey, de-
ceased, granted to Sir William Moigne and his heirs and assigns
for ever, the arms Argent, on a cross Azure, five garbs Or, which
arms had descended to the said Thomas Grendale by right of
inheritance from the said John Beaumys.* The motive for this
assignment is not known; nor has any connection between either of
the persons mentioned in the grant and Moigne been ascertained.
The last notice of the Deponent is in August 13S)9, when he ob-
tained the King's bond for one hundred marks which he had
lent him.^
Sir William Moigne, aged sixty and upwards, armed forty
years, deposed that he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a
bend Or, at the battle in Spain, and before Paris, with the late
King, on which occasion he saw a banner of the said arms with a
white label ; and also in Scotland, and others of his branches with
differences. He saw, at the siege of Calais, one of the name of
Scrope armed in those arms with a label Ermine; and, when the
French attempted to victual the town of Calais by night, this
person, who was called Sir William Scrope, conducted himself in
those arms so gallantly in capturing the said supplies, and the
I 8to. 1828. " Collonian MS. Julius C. iv. f. 296.
' Cane's Gascon Rolls, i. 155, ' Rol. Claus. 10 Kic. II. m. 16 d.
0 HarleJan MS. 1 178, f. 42 b, and the MS. in ihe College of Arms marked
W.Z-f. 133- In the Roll of Arms of (he reign of Edward the Second, before died,
a " Sire de Beaumeys" of HuntingdoosliJre is said lo beir " de Aiure a les
garbea de aveye de Or." ' Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 133.'
I
374
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib William
MOIGNE.
French at the Water Gate of Calais, that every Englishman spoke
of him with great honour: the said Sir William Scrope was
afterwards with the Prince at the battle of Cressy, and in Gascony
and Spain until his death. The Deponent had heard that they
were descended from great gentlemen and nobles, and had pos-
sessed these arms from beyond the time of memory. He had
never heard of any challenge on the part of Sir Robert Grosvenor,
or of any ancestor of his, or aught of the said Sir Robert, before
the last expedition into Scotland.
The arms of Sir William Moigne, according to a contemporary
authority, were. Argent, two bars, in chief three mullets Sable ;^
which are very different from the coat attributed to a Sir William
Moigne of Huntingdonshire in 1310, and from the coat assigned to
him by the grant of Thomas Grendale in 1391*
Sir Richard
Waldegrave.
SIR RICHARD WALDEGRAVE was the representative
of an ancient family whose name was derived from a place
called Walgrave in Northamptonshire.^ His father. Sir Richard
Waldegrave, who died in 1374, married Agnes daughter of
Daubeney.
The Deponent was born about 1338, and from the official
situations which he filled, appears to have risen to eminence by
his talents. During the latter part of the reign of Edward the
Third he served in most of the military expeditions which were
undertaken, and was in the army before Paris in 1360. He
accompanied the Earl of Hereford to Turkey in 1364, and was
" at Satalie
When it was won, and in the grete see."
Sir Richard afterwards served under the Duke of Lancaster when
he invaded France in 1369. He was seated at Smallbridge in
Suffolk, and represented that county in Parliament in the 50th
Edw. III., 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 10th, and 13th Ric. II.^ In
February 1380 he was, present at the house of the Friars Mendi-
cants of London as one of the Commissioners to whom a dispute
relative to certain lands in Yorkshire, which had belonged to Wil-
liam de Cantilupe, was referred.' In the Parliament which met
* Roll of Arms in the possession of the Hev. John Newling.
« CoUins's Peerage, ed. 1779, vol. iv. 417.
3 Rot. Pari. iii. 79 b.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 375
at Westminster on the morrow of All Souls 5 Ric, II. November ^
1381, he was chosen Speaker of the Commons, which situation he
prayed to be excused from accepting ; but the King charged him
on his allegiance, that, since he was chosen by his colleagues, lie
should execute the office.' It has been observed, that he affords
the first instance of a speaker declining the appointment r and
though this is true, it is by no means remarkable, because the
records of Parliament contain notices of ihe election of only five
Speakers before himself. His motive for endeavouring to be
excused appears to have been a prudential one. A dispute was
likely to arise between Parliament and the people, respecting the
enfranchisement of the neifs, or villains, to whom the King had
lately granted charters of freedom, with the view, as he expressly
stated in his speech, "of putting an end to the recent riots; but as
those charters were extorted from him when he was not possessed
of his full kingly power, he had since, by tbe advice of his council,
revoked them, they being contrary to law, and tending to the dis-
inheritance of the prelates and lords of the realm." The question
proposed to Parliament in the royal message, or, as it was then
termed, " charge," was, whether the repeal of those grants was
agreeable to the Lords and Commons ; for the King observed, that
if they approved of enfranchising their " neifs,"" he would most will-
ingly assent thereto.^ It did not require any extraordinary know-
ledge of human nature to perceive, that on a point in which per-
sonal interests were to be opposed to the dictates of humanity,
violent discussions might arise; for in no age or country have
the rights of mankind been conceded without strong opposition.
Waldegrave wisely, if not honourably, strove to avoid so conspi-
cuous a station as Speaker of the Commons; but the royal com-
mand compelled him to serve; and after the usual protestation,
he thus addressed the King: —
" My liege Lord, my colleagues here present and myself have
" discussed the message lately delivered from your Royal Majesty,
" but we find there is variance between us on the subject ; and
" thei-efore, if it pleases you, we wish to repeat here before you the
" said message, or that it may please your Royal Majesty to cause
" the message to be again repeated before us, that we may clearly
' Rot. Pari. iii. 100. ' CoUins'a Peerage, ed. 1779, vol. iv, p. 417.
* Rot. Pari. iii. 99.
376 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Richard « understand it, and endeavour among ourselves to be as much as
Waldegravb. .11/. • • <»
" possible oi one opmion.
The King commanded Sir Richard Scrope, "then newly
created Chancellor of England,**' to repeat so much of the message
as bore on the point; and it being demanded whether the repeal of
the manumissions was agreeable to them or not, the Prelates,
Lords, Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses replied, with one voice,
that the repeal " was well done;^ adding, that the enfranchisement
of neifs could not take place without their assent, who had the
greatest interest in them.^ The farther proceedings on the subject
do not belong to this work ; but it is impossible to advert to them
at the moment when these pages are written^ without being
struck with the example which they present of the manner in
which the strong have always combined to oppress the weak; of
the tardiness with which the people have obtained those rights
which the Author of Nature intended for them ; and still more, of
the way in which the suggestions of self-interest have constantly
prevailed over the suggestions of reason and justice.
On the 19th April 1385 Sir Richard Waldegrave was appoint-
ed a Commissioner to muster the men-at-arms and archers in the
retinues of the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem and of Sir Thomas
Percy.* Whilst attending the Parliament which met at West-
minster on the 1st October 1386, as Knight of the Shire for Suf-
folk,* he gave his testimony in favour of Sir Richard Scrope ; and in
the same year he became bound to the King in one thousand marks
to maintain Elizabeth, one of the cousins and heirs of Sir Philip
Bryan, for one year, to keep her " ab omni virili corrupcione mun-
dam et immaculatam,^ to furnish her with food and raiment, and
at the expiration of that time to deliver her to John Lovell, to whom
his Majesty had given her in marriage.^ In 1395 Waldegrave was
a Commissioner to treat with the Scotch respecting the infraction
of the truce.^ He appears shortly after that time to have retired
from public life ; and on the 22nd April 1401, being then at
* Ro^ Pari. iii. 100. " q'ont le greindre interesse." The earnestness with
which Parliament expressed themselves against the enfranchisement of a certain
class of their fellow-countrymen on this occasion is deserving of serious reflection,
and admits of many important deductions. ' October 1831.
3 Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 149. * Hot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d.
* Rot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 15 d. « Rot. Scot. 19 Ric. II. m. 5.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 377
Smallbridge, made his will, in which he styled himself "Sir Richard ^
Waldegrave senior." His body he desired might be buried in the
church of St. Mary ofBuers, near to Joan his wife, to which church,
as well as to that of Waigrave, and to some chantries and convents,
he gave legacies; to Richard his son he bequeathed a missal, a
vestment, and a chalice, and appointed Master William Candysh.
Rector of Bulmer, and three other priests, his executors. Sir
Richard died on the 2nd May 1401, leaving by Joan his wife, the
daughter and heiress of Silvester of Buers in Sudblk, who
survived him until June 1406, one son. Sir Richard Waldegrave,
who was Lord ofBuers in right of his mother. He served in the
wars of the reign of Henry the Fifth and Sixth, and was one of
the heroes of Agincourt, being then in the retinue of Sir William
Bourchier.' Sir Richard was the ancestor of the Waldegraves of
Boreley and of the present Earl Waldegrave and Lord Radstock.
Sir Richard Waldegrave, aged forty-eight, armed twenty-five
years, deposed that the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged to the
Scropes, who were reputed to be of ancient lineage, as he had
heard, in the lifetime of the Earl of Northampton. He saw Sir
Richard so armed in the expedition of the late King before Paris,
and at the same time Sir Henry Scrope with his banner, on which
were the said arms with a white label. And also beyond the great
sea he saw Sir William Scrope so armed, with a label, in the com-
pany of the Earl of Hereford at Satalia in Turkey, at a treaty
which was concluded between the King of Cyprus and " leTakka,"
Lord of Satalia, when the King of Cyprus became Lord of Satalia.
At Balyngham-hill the banner of Sir Henry was displayed ; and
in the expedition into Caux, when the Lord of Lancaster was com-
mander-in-chief. Sir William Scrope, son of the said Sir Richard,
was so armed, with a label. The Deponent could not say which
of the ancestors of Sir Richard first bore the arms, but since this
dispute he had heard that his ancestors came direct from the
Conquest ; and, before this challenge, he had been informed that
they were of ancient lineage ; but he certainly never heard of any
challenge or interruption offered by Sir Robert Grosvenor, or his
ancestors, to the bearing of the arms in question.
The arme of Sir Richard Waldegrave were. Per pale Argent
and Gules.
' History of (he Battle of Agincourt.
vou II. 3 c
378 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
S.R R,cH*«o giR RICHARD ADDERBURY ok ABBERBURY. To
Adderbury.
those who are not aware of the great uncertainty which prevails
respecting the genealogy of many of the most eminent persons of
the middle ages, it may appear surprising that little is known of
the parentage of an individual who attained so much celebrity as
this Deponent.^ It is most probable that he was the son of the
Richard Abberbury to whom, and to his mother Dyonisia, widow
of Walter de Abberbury, William le Tours granted land in
Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire in the 11th Edw. 11.^ That he
was connected with Oxfordshire is indisputable, because he held
lands at Steeple Aston in 1362, and afterwards represented that
county in Parliament.
He was bom about 1330, and is first noticed in February 1356,
when he obtained letters of protection on going to Oascony in the
retinue of the Prince of Wales, at which time he was a knight ;^
and as no other record of him is preserved during the reign of
Edward the Third than that he was again serving in Oascony in
May 1366,^ and in November 1368,^ it must be inferred that he
did not acquire much reputation until the accession of Richard the
Second, in whose reign he was constantly employed in public
situations.
In February 1st Ric. II. 1378, Abberbury was appointed Cap-
tain of the Castle of Brest ;^ and on the 7th March following the
King granted to him a ship called ** La Alice,^ which he was to
use against the enemy .^ He was a Knight of the King^s Chamber
in July 1379, when he was ordered to treat with the Duke of
1 A Richard Abberbury, probably the person of that name who represented
Oxfordshire in Parliament in the 2nd Edw. III. (Rot. Claus. eod. ann. m. 9 d.)
died in the 8th Edw. III. seised of lands in Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Berk-
shire, and Sussex, leaving his son John, then six years of age, who became a
knight, and died without issue on the 1st September 1346; when his uncle, Thomas
Abberbury, was found to be his heir, and upwards of forty years old. Esch.
8th Edw. III. n<> 38, and Esch. 20di Edw. III. n<'28. A Thomas Adderbury of
Wiltshire died in 1415, but his heir is not mentioned in the inquisition on his
decease. Esch. 3 Hen. V. n^* 24. The various ways in which the name of the
Deponent has been written is noticed in the account of his son, in page 230 antea.
« Cottonian MS. Titus A. vii. f. 325. » Foedera, iii. p* i. p. 119.
* Carte's Gascon Rolls, i. 154. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, i. 156.
« Fcedera, iii. p^ iii. p. 77, and Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 123.
^ Foedera, iii. p^ iii. p. 74.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 379
Brittany ;' and was employed as a Commissioner on the following ^
numerous occasions : to muster the retinue of Sir Thomas Percy
and Hugh de Calverley;^ to hear and determine the matter
relating to the ransom of Oliver Clakyn, a prisoner, in October
1379 ;^ to treat with John King of Castile,* and with the King of
Portugal respecting a league in April 1386 ;* to conclude a truce
between the Kings of France and England in April 1390," and
also to treat with the Flemish Towns;' on which occasion he was
ordered to survey the castles and fortresses in the marches of
Calais.* In May 1381 he received letters of protection on going
to Portugal I? and in August 1385 was appointed one of the exe-
cutors of the Will of Joan Princess of Wales.'" Between the 3rd
and 7th Ric. II. he was retained to serve John of Gant for life, in
peace as well as in war." He was elected Knight of the Shire for
the county of Oxford to the Parliament which met at Westminster
in October 1386,"^ and whilst attending that assembly was examin-
ed as a witness for Sir Richard Scrope. In July 1388 Sir Richard
Abberbury, being then Chamberlain to the Duke of Lancaster,
was a Commissioner to take possession of certain territories in the
Duchy of Guienne," and in the same year was a Commissioner in
the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy. He was one of the emi-
nent persons who addressed a letter to the Pontiff in May 1390,
complaining of the horrible excesses of the Church of Rome.'*
To these notices the only fact which can be added is, that Sit
Richard Abberbury had a son of the same name, who was also a
witness for Sir Richard Scrope, and of whom a slight memoir will
be found in a former page."
According to a manuscript in the College of Arms a Sir
Richard Abberbury married Agnes daughter of Sir William
Shareshull senior, and had a daughter, Elizabeth, the wife of
John Beaufoe of Bersforde."'
' Fffidera, iii. p' iii. p. 88. ' Carle's Gascon Roils, ii, 129.
' Fcedera, iii, p* iii. p. 90. * Fcedera, iii. p' iii. p, 200,
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 152. ' Fitdera, iii. p' iv. p. 56.
' Fcedera, iii. p' iv. p. S7. ' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 161,
» Carle's Gascon Rolls, ii. 136. '" Nichols's Royal Wills.
" Regislrum Johannis Ducis Lancaslris. " Roi. Glaus. lORicII. m.ied.
1» FtBdera, iii. p'iv. p, 28. ■* Fcedera. iii. p' iv. p. 59. " Page 230.
'• Vincent's MS. n' 10. f. 1.
(
380
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib RfcaAftD
AD0tmM7ftT.
Sir Richard Adderbury, aged fifty-five, armed thirtj years,
deposed that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope and his Idnsmen
armed in the arms Azure, a bend Or, in divers expeditions under
the late King, and also during the present reign ; they possessing
the said arms in great honour, and being held, acon-diiig to
public opinion, to be entitled to them. He had never beard
otherwise than that the said Sir Richard and his ancestors had
borne them time out of mind, and without impediment firmn Sir
Robert Grosvenor or any of his ancestors.
Sir Richard Abberbury^s lums were. Or, a fess double embat-
tled at the top Sable.^
Sift ROBKftT
CLATEftlVC.
SIR ROBERT CLAVERING was the son and heu* of
William de Clavering, eldest son of Sir Alan Clavering, a younger
brother of John Lord of Clavering and Warkworth.' He was
bom in 1326, and succeeded to the manor of Callaley, in the
county of Northumberland, on the death of Maud his mother,
who probably held it in dower, in 1352.^ Clavering served at the
siege of Calais in 1346 ; he was in the army with which Edward
the Third menaced Paris in the spring of 1360 ; and was in the
expedition under the Duke of Lancaster in France in 1369- In
1383 and 1385 he was in the army which invaded Scotland ; and
in 1386 was returned to the Parliament that met at Westminster
on the 1st October, as Knight of the Shire for Northumberland ;^
and whilst attending that assembly gave his testimony in favour of
Sir Richard Scrope. In the preceding year Sir Robert was or-
dered to review the garrison of Berwick, and to report on its con-
dition to the Barons of the Exchequer.^ On the 15th December
1386 he was made Chancellor and Chamberlain of Berwick, and
Clerk of the Works and Keeper of the Victuals and Artillery in
that town, which offices he was to perform in person at a yearly
' Roll of Anns in the possession of the Rev. John Newling.
' Heialds' Visitation of Northumberland in 1666, MS. marked C. 41, in the
College of Arms.
• Esch. 26 Edw. III. n» 25; and Rot Orig. vol. u. p. 227. In 1361 he was
found cousin and heir to Isabella, widow of Alan de Clavering, who married
secondly, Walter de Creke. Esch. 35 Edw. III. n^ 58.
* Rot Glaus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d. ^ Rot Scot 9 Ric. II. m. 7.
SIR RICHARD 3CR0PE. 381
salary of forty pounds, and to dwell constantly there, unless he 8'" R"»*
received the King's licence to proceed against the Scotch.' This
appointment proves the confidence that was placed in his talents
and fidelity ; for great importance was attached to the preserva-
tion of Berwick, which, from its vicinity to Scotland, was con-
stantly exposed to attack.
Sir Robert Clavering died in 1393,* leaving four sons.^ From
Sir John, the eldest, who was then upwards of thirty years of
age,'' the Baronets of the name of Clavering of Callaley in North-
umberland were descended,^ The pedigrees of the family do not
state who was the Deponent's wife ; but it appears that in 1376 he
had married Joan the widow of Sir Edward Letham, for in that
year a writ was directed to the collectors of the customs in the
Port of Berwick, commanding them to pay to Joan widow of Sir
Edward Letham, and to Sir Robert Clavering her then husband,
the money for the dower of the said widow and the support of
her children, the lands previously assigned for that purpose having
been recovered by the Scotch.*
Sir Robert Claveryng, aged sixty, armed thirty-nine years,
deposed that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope, and his cousins and
branches of his family, armed in the arms Azure, a bend Or, at
the siege of Calais, at Balyngham-hill, in the chivauchee in Caux,
and before Paris, when King Edward was there ; and also in both
expeditions to Scotland- He was in his youth informed by his
ancestors that the said arms had devolved to Sir Richard lineally
and by right from his ancestors, who were nobles and high gentry
from the time of the Conquest, as his ancestors and old knights
and esquires told him, and as common fame witnessed. He added,
that he had never heard of any challenge of them by Sir Robert
Grosvenor, or his ancestors, nor had he ever heard of him until
the commencement of this dispute.
The arms of Sir Robert Clavering were. Quarterly Or and
Oules, a bend Sable.'
' Rot. Scot, 10 Ric. II. m,2; and Fcedcra,»!. p'iv. p. 11.
■ Eseh. 17 Ric. II. n° 14. ' Heralds" VisitatioD of Northumberland iii 1666.
■ RoL Scoc, 50Edw. in, m.4. 1376.
-> Herald»' Visitations, and the Roil of Anns in llie piissession of the Rev.
John Nenliug.
^m
382 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
s.rJobnSmnt sir JOHN SAINT QUINTYN. Although undoubtedly
a member of the ancient Yorkshire family of his name, this Depo-
nent has not been affiliated, and little is known respecting him.
He was bom about 1347, and first served in the field in Scotland
under the Earl of Northumberland : he was afterwards in the
wars of France and Brittany in the expeditions commanded by the
Duke of Lancaster. In 1382 St. Quintyn was appointed Keeper
of Scarborough Castle for life, with a fee of forty marks yearly;*
and in 1383 was in the army with which the Duke of Lancaster
invaded Scotland. He was again in the expedition against the
Scotch under Richard the Second in person, in August 1385; and
was returned to the Parliament which met at Westminster in
October 1386, as Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire,* on the 15th
of which month he was examined in the church of St. Margaret^s
at Westminster, on behalf of Sir Richard Scrope. In the 14th
Ric. II. he was found to be brother and heir of Johanna, who
married, first, John Engaine, and secondly Sir William Colville.'
Sir John Saint Quintyn was Lord of Brandesburton in Holder-
ness in Yorkshire, and was twice married ; but all which is known
of one of his wives is, that her name was Agnes : his other wife
was Lora, the daughter and coheir of Herbert Lord of St. Quintyn,
and widow of the Robert Lord Grey of Rotherfield who died be-
fore 1387.* By her, who died in 1369, and was buried at Bran-
desburton,* he had no issue ; and dying on the 17th January 1397,
was buried near the said Lora. The following inscription, with
effigies of himself and of his two wives, together with two escut-
cheons, the one containing a chevron charged with a greyhound,
and a chief Vaire; and the other charged with two chevronels,
and a chief Vaire,* were placed on his tomb : —
'' 1^ jacmt Wn'i 9o]^'nt£( tit ^antto (Sutntino fHiUsi quontram
Sominuj^ iitiwi bOb qui obiiX xbif tiit 3antiarit a" Jim ffl.ccc
nonafpnimo £(eptimo tt lora uxor t^ui quae obitt anno Vni
iHttt itxsLpivoio nono."*
» Rot. Pat. 6 Ric. IL p. 1. m. 28. « Rot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d.
* Esch. 14 Ric. II. n* 15.
* Vincent's MS. in the College of Arms, marked B. 2. f. 297.
* Harleian MS. 1394, f. 316, being a beautiful copy of Glover's Visitation of
Yorkshire in 1584, with church notes in his own hand.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 383
The subjoined inscription was also placed in the same church: — Smjou
" ®taU pro animatjutf 3o[)'nid He S't'o iSuinttno & Ion He
St. @uin(ina tt Sgnitie uxor' tjuS.
Sir John St. Quintyn, aged thirty-nine, first armed in Scotland
in the company of the Earl of Northumberland on the great day
of March,' deposed that he had often heard old knights and
esquires of his country aver, that the Scropes were gentlemen of
ancient family immemorially in Richmondshire and Yorkshire ;
and that he had seen Sir William Scrope armed in the arms Azure
a bend Or, with a. difference, when the Lord of Lancaster chi-
vauched through France as far as Gascony ; and Sir John Scrope
armed in the same arms with difl'erence in Brittany ; and Sir
Richard Scrope armed in the entire arms, twice in Scotland, once
with his banner in the expedition of the Lord of Lancaster, and
the other time with his banner in the presence of the King. He
had also seen Sir Henry Scrope so armed when he was Governor
of Guisnes, and with his banner and a dii!«rence, in the expedition
in Caux with the Lord of Lancaster. He had heard from old
persons that the ancestors of Sir Richard had borne the arms time
out of mind, and without interruption from Sir Robert Grosvenor,
of whom, or his ancestry, he had not heard until the last expedi-
tion into Scotland.
The arms of Sir John St. Quintyn were. Or, a chevron Gules,
charged with a greyhound current ; a chief Vaire.^
SIR BERTRAM MONTBOUCHER was the eldest son of s.r b.
Sir Reginald Monlboucher of Beamish in the county of North-
umberland,' and was born about the year 1337. He commenced
his military career in the army with which Edward the Third
invaded France in the autumn of 1359, and menaced Paris in the
spring following ; and ho subsequently served under the banner of
Henry first Lord Scrope of Mashaui, but he does not state on
what occasions.
' ■' A le graunde jour de Marche."
' AiTDB on his tomb. The greyhound was ertdenlly a mark of distinction ; luid
was probably taken from (he anna of Mallory or Mauleverer, willi which York-
shire fellies it is extremely hkely thai the Si. Quintyns were connected.
' Surlees' History of Durham, ii. 225.
384 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Bertram Montboucher was Sheriff of Northumberland in 1376, 1377,
AlOMTBOUCHER
1379» and 1380, and represented that county in Parliament in the
47th and 50th Edw. III.^ and again in the Parliament which met
at Westminster on the 1st October 10th Ric. II. 1386,« on the
15th of which month he was examined by Sir Richard Scrope's
proctor at that place. It would appear from the conclusion of his
deposition that he was in the army in Scotland under Richard
the Second in 1385. Sir Bertram Montboucher died in 1388,^
and by his first wife, Isabel, daughter of Sir Richard Wil-
loughby of Wollaton in Nottinghamshire/ had issue a son, Sir
Bertram Montboucher,^ whose son Bertram was found to be one of
the heirs of Hugh Willoughby, Clerk, his grandmother's brother,
in the 7th Hen. IV.* By his second wife. Christian, daughter of
Sir John de Woderington, and coheir of her mother Elizabeth,
daughter and coheir of Richard de Acton,^ Sir Bertram had a
daughter, Isabel, who was twice married, first to Sir Henry Heton,
by whom she had no issue ;^ but by her second husband, Robert
Harbottle, who was Sheriff of Northumberland in 1406,* the said
Isabel had a son Robert. On the death of Bertram Montboucher
the great-grandson of the Deponent, in the 4th Hen. VI. his great*
aunt Isabel Harbottle became his heir.^ She died in the 5th
Hen. VI.® leaving her son, Robert Harbottle, then twenty-four
years of age, whose descendant, Sir Ouichard Harbottle, had two
daughters, who were his coheirs, namely, Eleanor, who married
Sir Thomas Percy, brother of Henry sixth Earl of Northumber-
land and ancestor of the present Duke of Northumberland ; and
Mary the wife of Sir Edward Fitton.*
Sir Bertram Mountboucher, aged forty-nine, first armed in the
expedition of the late King Edward the Third before Paris, where
he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed in the arms Azure, a bend Or,
» Surtees' History of Durham, ii. 225. Harleian MS. 259, f. 60 b. Lans-
downe MS. 229, f.28. ' Rot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m.l6 d.
» Esch. 12 Ric. II. n» 36. ♦ Surtees' History of Durham, ii. 225.
* Esch. 7 Hen. IV. n» 44.
* Sir Henry Heton had a son, who died without issue, and three daughters, viz.
Joan the wife of Thomas Lylbome ; Elizabeth the wife of John Paike; and Mar-
garet the wife of Thomas Middleton ; each of which daughters was living in the
5th Hen. VI.; but it would appear that they were the children of Sir Henry by
z former wife.
' Esch. 4 Hen. VI. n<» 24. * Esch. 5 Hen. VI. n® 40.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 385
and who was then in the retinue of the Earl of Richmond, now ?'■ Bsitbjh
MONTBOUCH»».
Duke of Lancaster and King of Spain ; and the present Sir Henry
Scrope in the same expedition so armed, with a white label, and
with his banner. In proof of which arms the Deponent had learn-
ed from his ancestors that the noble King Edward the Third, who
had good knowledge of all manner of right to arms, commanded
Sir Greoffrey Scrope, (father of the present Sir Henry Scrope,)
then in his retinue, with forty men-at-arnna, in the expedition to
Burenfos, and at the siege of Toumay, to raise his banner, where*
on were these arms with a white label ; and the said arms conti-
nued to be borne in the King's wars throughout his life; and Sir
Henry Scrope, elder brother of the said Sir Geoffrey, who was
father of the said Sir Richard that now is, used the same arms
entire, and placed them in his halls, on his beds, vessels, and
burial places, as appears to this day : and Sir Henry Scrope, son
of Sir Geoffrey Scrope, used the said arms on his banner with
great honour throughout his life ; under which banner the Depo-
nent had served. He had heard from his ancestors that the
arms in question had been borne by the ancestors of Sir Richard
since the Conquest, as might be seen in the abbeys and churches
of that part of the country where Sir Richard was born, upon
tombs, on glass, paintings, vestments, and on charters and mu-
niments of grants to abbeys, sealed with their arms. The De-
ponent had never heard of any challenge by Sir Robert Grosvenor,
or any of his ancestors, until tliis dispute commenced in Scotland.
The arms of Sir Bertram Montboucher were. Argent, three
pitchers Gules, within a bordure Sable bezantee.'
SIR ROBERT MARNY. Of this individual very little s.b u^«e„t
besides what he states in his deposition is known ; and in the
account which is there given an error has been detected. Sir
Robert Maniy was the son of William de Marny of Leyr Mar-
ny in Esbck,* which manor hia ancestors held for several gene-
rations.^ According to the Scrop Roll he was bom in 1334, as
' Thete arms were borne by his ancestor, Bertram de Monlbouclipr, at the
siege of Carlaverock in 1300. ' Morant's History of Essex, i. 406.
* Moianfs History of Essex, i. 405. Leyr Maniey was poisessed by William
de Maroy in the 3rd Edw. III. {Each. 3 Edw, III. n° 122.) and in the 9th Edw.
m. he obtained a charter of free warren there. (Rot Curt. eod. ann. n. 5.)
VOL. li. 3 D
S86 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUB OF
8» RouftT he is stated to have been fifty-two yean of age in 1386. It is,
however, certain that he was then much older, because he says be
was first armed at the '* first relief of Stirling,'^ which occurred
in the summer of 1336, and served at the si^e of Toumay
in July 1340; hence his birth must be assigned to about the
year 1320.
Marny was abroad in the King^s service in 1355 and 1357, in
which years he obtained letters of protection,^ and again in Febru»
ary 1356, when he was about to accompany the Black Prince to
Gascony.^ Elarly in 1360 he was in the army which appeared
before Paris previously to the peace of Chartres, and served on
other occasions in Brittany and Scotland. He represented the
county of Essex in the Parliament which met at Westminster
on the Ist October 10th Ric IL 1386,^ and whilst attendmg that
assembly was examined in the Scrope and Qrosvenor controversy.
It has not been ascertained when he died. By Alicia the widow
of Sir William le Bruyn, who died in the 36th Edw. III. 1362,«
and daughter and heiress of Richard Layer of Suffolk,^ he had a
son. Sir William- Marny, the grandfather of Sir Henry Marny,
K.O., who was created Lord Marny by Henry the Eighth. His
son John, second Lord Marny, died in 1525, leaving two daughters
his coheirs, namely, Katherine, who married George Ratclifie, and
Elizabeth, the wife of Lord Thomas Howard, son of Thomas
Duke of Norfolk, afterwards Lord Howard of Bindon.^
Sir Robert Marny, aged fifty-two, first armed at the first
relief of Stirling in Scotland, in the time of the late King Edward,
the said Sir Robert being at that time in the company of Sir Wil-
liam de Bohun, cousin german of the said noble King, who was
' afterwards created Earl of Northampton, deposed, that when the
Earl of Derby first went into Gascony he had in his company one
of the Scropes, who was armed Azure, a bend Or, with a label
Ermine ; but his name the Deponent did not recollect. He also
saw one of the Scropes bear the same arms, with a white label, at
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 57 and 65.
* Foedera, iii. p'i. p. 119. In 1348 Eleanor de Ewell enfeoffed Robert de
Marny in the manor of Kynsley in Buckinghamshire, (Esch. 22 Edw. III. second
numbers, n® 81,) and in 1376 he^ with other persons, enfeoffed Robert de Bourton
and others in the said manor. Esch. 50 Edw. III. second numbers, n» 34.
* Rot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d.
* MS. in the College of Arms, marked C. 22, f. 207.
* Morant's Essex, i. 406. * Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 302.
SIR BICHAHD SCROPE. 387
the siege of Tournay, but his name he did not remember. The Sm Robe
Deponent afterwards saw Sir Henry Scrope so armed, and with
his banner, with the Earl of Northampton in France ; and also
the said Sir Henry and Sir Richard similarly armed before Paris
in company of the Earl of Richmond, the said Sir Richard bear-
ing the arms entire, and Sir Henry with a white label. He never
heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of any of his ancestors, during
the whole time that he {the deponent) had served in France, in
Gascony, under the Prince in Brittany, or in Scotland.
The arms of Sir Robert Marny were, Gules, a lion rampant
guardani Argent.'
SIR THOMAS SAKEVYLE. The family of Sakevyle, or, &"> Tho«
as the name is now written, Sackville, is of great antiquity, it
being traced by genealogists to Herbrand de Salchevilla, one of
the commanders in the army with which William the Conqueror
invaded England.'^ Sir Andrew Sakevyle, liis descendant, who
died in 1370, is said to have married three wives, and to have left
issue by his first marriage two sons, Sir Andrew, who died before
him without issue, and John, who married Agnes sister of George
Glanville, but died childless :^ his wife took to her second hus-
band John Cobat, or Gobat,' and to her third John Nevill, and
died in March 1406.* By his third wife, tbe daughter of Burgeis,
Sir Andrew is stated to have had Thomas the deponenL- Part of
this statement is, however, erroneous. Sir Thomas Sakevyle, the
Deponent, was the collateral heir male of Sir Andrew ; namely,
son of Sir Thomas Sakevyle of Buckinghamshire, son of Robert,
son of Thomas, son of Jordan, son of Bartholomew, brother of
William Sakevyle, father of Jordan, father of Andrew, father of
Sir Andrew Sakevyle, who died in 1370.'
' Roll of Arms in the possession of (he Rev. John Kewling.
' CoUins'a Peerage, ed. 17T9, ii. 142.
> Inquisition on Ihe death of Agnes Nevill, nidow of John Sakev)>le, 7 lien. IV.
n" 38. "Juralores dicuni quod Andreas Saltevyle miles de com. Sussex fiiit sciaiius
de manerio dc Debenham vocato Sakevyles in com. Suff., &c idem manerium dedit
Johanni Sakevyle lilio suo el Agneti adtunc ui:ori ejus & heredibus de corporibus
eonindem Jobannis & Agnetis exeuotibus. Ita quod si piedicli Johannes & Agnes
sine lieredibus de corporibus ipsorum exeuntibus obieriat, tunc dictum manerium
rectis heredibus piedicti Andn^ reverii deberet. £t postea, predictus Johannes
filius Andree sine berede de corpore suo exeunle. El postea predicla Agnes
cepit in vimm JohanDem Cobat, [in one of the Inquisitions he is called Gobat,] el
398
388 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OP
Sii Thomas Sakevyle first served in the field in 1354>, and was present in
various expeditions in France and Scotland under Edward the
Third, or, as he himself says, " in all the wars^ of that monarch.
In 1379 he obtained letters of protection, being then goin£^ to
Brittany ;^ and in 1385 he was in the army which invaded Scot-
land. He represented Buckinghamshire in Parliament in the
first and other years of the reign of Richard the Second iintil
1395, when, and in the 21st Ric. II., he was elected for Sussex.^
Whilst attending the Parliament at Westminster in October 1386,
as Knight of the Shire for Bucks,^ he was examined on behalf of
Sir Richard Scrope. According to the printed peerages^ he was
Sherifi* of Sussex in the 7th Hen. IV., served in the French wars
under Henry the Fifth, and died in 1432 ; but this is shewn to
be a mistake by the fact that Thomas Sakevyle, who was found
heir to the lands of which Agnes Nevill, widow of John Sakevyle,
died seised in 1406,^ was then only an esquire^ hence the Deponent
must have died before that year. The said Thomas Sakevyle,
who was an Esquire in 1406, was his son or grandson ; and was,
it is presumed, the individual that served under. Henry the Fifth,
and made his will in 1432.^
The Deponent is said to have married Margaret, sister and co-
heiress of Sir John Dalingrigge; but no notice of such an alliance
occurs in the Will of Sir John Dalingrigge in 1420, though he
bequeathed the manor of Bolebroke in Sussex in remainder to Sir
postea predictus Andreas concessit reversionem ejusdem manerii Petro Hoo & aliis.
Qui concesserunt reversionem predicti manerii Thome [in another Inquisition he
is called Thomas son of Andrew Sakeville, Knight] Sakevyle de VVythyham de
com. Sussex, & heredibus de corpore suo procreatis. £t postea Johannes Cobat
obiit, & postea predicta Agnes cepit (predictum) Johannem Nevill in virum suum.
£t dicunt quod predicta Agnes postea obiit, videlicet, die Veneris in secunda septi-
mana quadragesime anno septimo regis nunc. £t dicunt quod Thomas Sakevyle
de com. Buck, armiger est consanguineus & proximus heres predicti Andree
Sakevyle militis de com. Sussex, videlicet, filius Thome Sakevyle, filii Thome Sake-
vyle militis de com. Buk., filii Roberti Sakevyle, filii Thome, filii Jordani, filii
Bartholomei, fratrisWillielmi Sakevyle, patris Jordani, paths Andree, patris Andree,
patris predicti Andree Sakevyle militis de com. Sussex, qui obiit sine herede de cor-
pore suo exeunte. £t dicunt quod Katerina filie Georgii Glaunvile defimcti fratris
Agnetis sunt heredes ejusdem Agnetis propinquiores.'' Another Inquisition states
that John Glaunvile the son of George Glanvile, brother of the said Agnes, is her
next heir.
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 129. « Rot Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d.
» CoUins's Peerage. * Esch. 7 Hen. IV. n® 38.
1
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 389
Thomas Sakevyle. By her he is stated to have had several chil- SikThj
dren, and was the ancestor of the Duke of Dorset.
Sir Thomas Sakevyle, aged fifty, armed thirty-two years,
deposed that he never saw any other man excepting of the name
of Scrope use the arms Azure, a bend Or ; that he never saw Sir
Robert Grosvenor so armed, nor ever heard of any of his ancestors
being armed in those arms until the last expedition into Scotland;
but that Sir Richard Scrope'a ancestors liad been armed in them
from beyond the time of memory ; and he had seen him so armed
in all the wars of the late King in France and Scotland, and in
presence of Kings. He never heard of any challenge on the part
of Sir Robert Grosvenor, nor ever heard of him or his ancestors,
until the commencement of this controversy.
The arms of Sir Thomas Sakevyle were. Quarterly Or and
Gules, a bend Vaire.'
SIR JOHN GODARD. The family of Godard was of S'n Joh
some antiquity in Yorkshire,^ and their importance was much
increased by the marriage of the Deponent with Constance daugh-
ter and coheiress of Sir Thomas Sutton of Sutton in Holderress,
and widow of Peter fiftli Lord Mauley, wbo died in 1383.* The
names of his parents have not been discovered ; he was bom
about 134G, and served his first campaign under John of Gant in
Spain in 1367, on the 3rd of April in which year he was present
at the battle of Najara. Godard subsequently fought against the
infidels in Prussia and beyond the " great sea ;" and in 1383 and
1385 he was in the expeditions in Scotland. He was a Knight of
the Siiire for Yorkshire in the Parliament which met at West-
minster on the 1st October 1386,* and was examined as a witness in
tile Scrope and Grosvenor controversy whilst attending his duties
on that occasion. In the 12th Ric. II. he was escheator,^ and in
the 13th Ric. 11. Sheriff of Yorkshire.^ The time of his decease
has nut been ascertained ; by the above-mentioned Constance de
Sutton he had two sons, Henry, who died issueless in 1421,' and
' Collina's Peerage.
* In the lOih Edw. II. Adam de Godard was found cousin and heir ofAdEmi
son orHoberl, SOD of Ralph Godard, for lands in Orion in Ribblesdale, in York-
shire. Each. 10 Edw. II, n" 45.
^ Frost's Notices of Hull, p. 99. Esch, 2 Hen. IV. n" 15.
' Kot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d. ' F^idera, iii. p' iv. p. 32.
• Harleian MS. 259, f. 97- ' Esch. 10 Hen. VI. n" 35,
390 DEPOXEICTS IS FAVOUR OF
$^fB Jovy gir John Godard,^ wbo was fourteen yean cdd at the death of
mother in 1401/ and died in 1490, leaving his son Jdhn Godaid
then two years of age.' On his demise in the 8th Hen. VI. 1430,
without issue,^ Agnes the wife of Sir Bryan Stafdeton, Maud the
wife of Robert Waddesle, Esquire, and Robert Ughtred, son of Mar-
garet, the Deponent'^s three daughters, were found to be his heirs.^
Sir John Godard, aged forty, first armed at the battk of Spain,
where he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed Azure, a bend Or, in
company of the hofrd of Lancaster; and he saw Sir William his son,
in Prussia, so armed, with a labd; and he had also seen the said Sir
William armed beyond the great sea in the same arms. And, on
his way to the army, the said Sir William iqipeared in those arms
with a label, in the wars in company of the Duke of Duras, beyond
Venice. He also saw Sir Richard so armed twice in Scotland,
once in the company of the Lord of Lancaster, and the other time
when the King was there. The arms were, he said, reputed to
have immemorially belonged to the Scropes. He had never heard
of any challenge being made to the said arms by Sir Robert Gros-
venor, nor had he ever heard of him until the last expedition in
Scotland with the King.
The arms of Oodard have not been positively ascertained.
Sii Walt.» sir WALTER ATTE LEE was the son of Sir John atte
Lee of the county of Herts, and succeeded his father in 1369, at
which time he was found by the inquisition to have been twenty-
one years of age ;^ but if he were only thirty-three in 1386, he
could then have been no more than sixteen.
He served in the army under the Duke of Lancaster, which
ravaged the Pais de Caux in Normandy, in 1369, and was in the
expedition in Scotland with that prince in 1383; and again,
under the King in person, in 1385. In April 1378 he received
letters of protection, being then going to Calais,^ and represented
Hertfordshire in Parliament in the 51st Eklw. III., 2nd, 4>th,
> On the 14th April 10th Hen. V. 1422, the Treasurer and Chamberlains of
the Exchequer were commanded to pay, out of the revenues of the lands lately
assigned in dower to Queen Joan, to ^ Isabelle que feust la feme de Jehan
Godard chivaler," 20/. in aid of her expenses in accompanying the Queen into
France. Foedera, iv. p* iv. p. 61. • Esch. 2 Hen. IV. n» 45.
» Esch. 8 Hen. V. n» 66. * Esch. 9 Hen. VI. n« 5.
* Esch. 44 Edw. III. n9 37. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 125.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 391
10th, and in the 12th Ric. II.' His colleague, as Knight of the SirW.i
Shire for that county in the Parliament which met at Westminster
on the 1st October 10th Ric. II. 1386, is said to have been his
son,' Thomas atte Lee, but the age of the Deponent proves this
to have been impossible. Whilst attending Parliament on that
occasion he gave his testimony in favour of Sir Richard Scrope.
Atte Lee died without surviving issue, and his three sisters, Mar-
gery wife of Robert Newport, Joan the wife of John Barley, and
Alice the wife of Sir Thomas Morewell, were his heirs.'
Sir Walter atte Lee, aged thirty-three, armed eighteen years,
deposed that he had heard old kniglits and esquires say that the
aims Azure, a bend Or, belonged of right and by inheritance to
the said Sir Richard Scrope, whom he had himself seen so armed
in the expedition in Caux, as well as Sir Henry Scrope, under a
banner of the same arms, with difference; and he had seen them so
armed in the expeditions in Scotland under the Lord of Lancaster,
and recently under the King. The Deponent had frequently
heard very old people say that they had continually used those
arms in the presence of kings, of the prince, dukes, and earls,
and other great lords, and acquired great honour therein. He
had certainly never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor until this
dispute.
The arms of Sir Walter atte Lee were. Argent, a cross chequy
Or and Azure.''
SIR JAMES BERNERS. As one of the victims to the |«J'»
party feuds for which the reign of Richard the Second was re-
markable, some historical interest is attached to this individual.
He was descended from an ancient family whose pedigree lias been
traced to Hugo de Bernariis, a Norman who accompanied the Coii-
queror to England, and obtained a grant of lands in Euresden in
Cambridgeshire, as well as in Middlesex and Essex. ^ Ralph Ber-
ners of Westhursley in Surrey, by Elizabeth daughter of Sir John
Stonor of Stonor in Oxfordshire, left a son, John Berners, who by ,
Katherine bis wife had issue James, the Deponent.^
' CluUerbuck'sHistory of Hertfordshire, ill. 33a.
' Roll of Anna lerap. Edw. II. 8vo. 1828, where these arms are itlribuied lo
Sir Joho de la L«e of llertfordahire. Clullerbuck, in his History of thai county,
states, however, ttaM the oriDa of th« faraily were. Argent, on a cross Aiure five
leopards' faces Or. * Vincent's MS. in ibe College of Aims, a? 124, f. 379.
392 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Jamm gi^ James Berners was born in 1360, and inherited the Lord-
Blrn krs
ship of Westhursley. He served for the first time in the expe-
dition in Brittany under the Earl of Buckingham in 1380 ; and
in 1383 and 1385 he was in the army which invaded Scotland.
From being in ward to the King he became a personal favourite,
and on being elected to represent the county of Surrey in Parlia-
ment in October 1385, he was excused from attending, on the
ground that he was a member of the King^s household and a
Knight of his Chamber.^ Berners was again elected a Knight of
the Shire for Surrey in the Parliament which met at Westminster
in October 1386,* and as he was examined in the Scrope and Gros-
venor controversy on the 15th of that month in the church of
Westminster, it may be inferred that he was then attending his
parliamentary duties.
His career was soon afterwards terminated in the most tragical
manner. Richard the Second^s regard rendered him, in common
with the rest of the favourites of that unfortunate Monarch,
obnoxious to the Duke of Gloucester and several other noblemen,
who formed a powerful faction, under the designation of " Lords
Appellants,'' with the avowed motive of reforming the abuses of
the state. On the 4th January 1387-8, Berners was arrested and
committed to the custody of the Constable of Bristol Castle ;^ and
in the Parliament which met at Westminster he, with the Arch-
bishop of York, the Duke of Ireland, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir
Simon Burley, Sir John Beauchamp of Holt, Sir John Salesbury,
Sir Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice, Sir Nicholas Brembre, and
others, were impeached of high treason. The charges against Bur-
ley, Beauchamp, Salesbury, and Berners were, that they confe-
derated to effect the death of those who enacted the statutes and
commission in the late Parliament ; that they supported the King
in retaining the Earl of Suffolk in the Chancellorship ; that they
were privy to the designs of the Archbishop of York and the other
traitors, and did not inform the Peers thereof, but on the contrary
assisted them in their plans ; that they had promoted dissensions
between the King, his peers, and the commonalty of the realm ;
that they had impeded the execution of the commission and sta-
tutes above-mentioned, and advised the King to go to distant
parts of the kingdom, with the view of assembling troops to
> Rot. Claus. 9 Hie. II. ' Rot Claus. 10 Ric. U. m. 16 d.
* Foedera, iii. pMv. p. 18.
SIR RICHARD SCIIOPE. 393
destroy the members of the said CommissLon, as well as certain S
koights of the shire, serjeants-at-law, and others who were present
in the late Parliament ; and that they were " common disturbers
of the law that the law might not take its course.'^
To these charges the accused severally replied that they were
wholly innocent ; and that they were desirous of freeing them-
selves from the impeachment, " like knights,'" in such manner as
the Lords of Parliament might appoint. The Commons, however,
pronounced them guilty ; and the Peers proceeded deliberately to
consider the subject, in order that their judgment might, it is
said, be to the honour of God and the benefit of the realm. They
continued to discuss the question until the 20th March, when
the King adjourned the Parliament until after Easter. It again
met on Monday the 20th April, and the impeachment was im-
mediately brought under consideration ; but it was not, however,
until the 5th of May that sentence was pronounced on either of
the prisoners. On the 12th of that month Sir John Beauchamp,
Sir John Salesbury, and Sir James Berners, were brought before
Parliament in the White Hall, when they were informed that
lliey had been found guilty of certain parts of the offences charged
against them. Beauchamp and Berners were adjudged guilty of
treason, and sentenced to be drawn, hung, and beheaded, but
Salesbury was ordered to be drawn and hung only : their heirs
were disinherited, and all their goods and chattels forfeited to
the King, " In as much, however," the record proceeds, " as
that Beauchamp was of gentle blood,' and had been steward of
the King's household, and that Berners was, during his minority,
in ward to the King, and had long been about his person,"
the penalties of drawing and hanging were in their cases remitted.
The Marshal of England was then commanded to convey Ber-
ners and Beauchamp to the Tower, and there behead them,
which was done on the same day, namely, the 12th May 1388.
Their accomplice, Salesbury, was also taken to the Tower, and
from thence drawn through the city to the gallows at Tyburn, and
there hung,-
In 1397 the proceedings against Berners and the other persons
who were executed and attainted in 1388 were reversed, and their
' " gentil sank." ' Rol. Pari. iil. 241—343.
VOL. 11. 3 E
i
394
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir James
Bernkrs.
heirs restored to their property.^ On the 28th January 1398 the
Commons stated to the King that they had accused Sir John Cob-
haoDj among other o£fences against the royal dignity, of having,
in Parliament, sentenced Sir Simon Burley and Sir James Bemers
to be drawn, hung, and beheaded, ^^ without the Eing^s assent,
against his will, and in his absence, as well as in the absence of
many other Peers of Parliament;'*' and they prayed that Cobham
might be brought before the Parliament then assembled at Shrews-
bury, to answer for his traitorous conduct This was accord-
ingly done, when he was found guilty, condemned, and attainted,
but the King granted him his life.^ As, however, the proceed-
ings of the Parliament in 1397 and 1398 were repealed on the
accession of Henry the Fourth, the attainder of Bemers and his
accomplices was revived.^
Sir James Bemers at the time of his execution was only twenty-
seven years of age. By Anne the daughter of John Barew,^ who
survived until 1402,^ and obtained the manor of West-Horsley
in Surrey, for her support until she married again or was other-
wise provided for,^ he left a son, Richard, then fifteen years old.^
He became a knight, and married Philippa (who took to her
second husband Sir Thomas Lewknor), daughter and heiress of Sir
Edward Dalingrigge of Bodyham Castle in Sussex,^ and by her had
a daughter and heiress Margery J She was eleven years of age at
the decease of her mother in 1421, and was then the wife of John
Feryby,^ who, as Clerk of the Green Cloth, accompanied Henry
the Fifth to Harfleur in 1415, and on his march towards Calais,
but was prevented from sharing in the laurels of Agincourt by
being left ill on the route, at the Castle of Meremont.^ Feryby
became Comptroller of the Household to Henry the Sixth, and
died without issue in 1447.^ Margery Bemers, his widow, mar-
ried, secondly, Sir John Bourchier, K.G. (younger brother of
Henry Earl of Essex,) who was summoned to Parliament as Lord
Berners in May 1454, by virtue of the following Writ of Privy
Seal to the Chancellor, which is remarkable as being the earliest
instrument of the kind extant :
' Rot. Pari. 21 Ric. II. vol. iii. 351, 357, 358, 411.
» Rot. Pari. 21 Ric. II. iu. 381 b. » Rot Pari. 1 Hen. IV. vol. iii. p. 437.
* Vincent's MS. n»! 24, f. 379. * Each. 4 Hen.IV. noi8. • Rot Pari. iii. 245 b.
' Esch. 9 Hen. V. n» 24. ■ History of the Battle of Agincourt
» Vincent's MS. n® 124, f. 379, and Esch. 21 Hen. VI. n» 16.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 396
« R. H. " ^^ '■^^ ^'"*^' r
" Most reverend fader in god our Right trusty and right
entierly welbeloved. We grete you hertly wele And wol for
certein consideratons moieviiig us that ye make out oure writs
unto our right trusty and welbeloved Knight Sir John Bourgchier
by f name of Baron of Barnes for to come unto our parlement
holden at Reding f* vj. day of Marche nexte coming And ))at
ye fail not thereof in no wyse. Yeven under our signet at our
cite of Norwyche fe xviij day of Feverer.
" To the most Reverend fader in god our Right trusty
andrightentierly welbeloved the Cardinal . . . Arch-
biashop of Canterbury our Chanceller of Kngland.
" This letter was delivered to the Chancellor, at Westm. 22"''
Feb». 31" Hen. fi. to be executed."
The present representatives of Sir James Bemers are the co-
heirs of the Barony of Berners, created by the Writ of Summons
to Sir John Bourchier : namely, Robert Wilson, of Didlington and
of Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk, Esq., who, as the representative of
the eldest coheir, has presented a petition to the King to be sum-
moned to Parliament, which petition is now under the considera-
tion of the House of Lords i and Louisa, widow of Richard Strang-
ways, of Well in the county of York; William Nicholson; and
Stephen James Penny, as coheirs of the youngest coheir.
Sir James Berners, aged twenty-five, first armed when the
Lord of Gloucester went to the relief of Brest, deposed that he
never heard of any other man having used the arms Azure, a bend
Or, or done honour to those arms, than Sir Richard Scrope, his
cousins and relations. He had seen branches of the family of Sir
Richard armed in the said arms in the expedition to Saint Malo,
and saw Sir Richard himself in the expedition into Scotland under
the Lord of Lancaster, and since in the expedition of the King.
He had seen the arms publicly borne in the presence of all the
lords in the above-mentioned expeditions, as the arms of Scrope,
without challenge from Sir Robert Gros'venor, of whom, or of his
ancestors, he had never heard before this controversy.
The arms of Sir James Berners were, Quarterly Or and Vert.'
■ In a Roll of Anna, compiled between the years 1240 and 1245, a°25 and
30 Hen. III. John de Berners is said lo have borne " Esquartile d'Or et de Ven,
uog labell de Goules." 8vo. 1829.
m
396 DEPONENTS I\ FAVOUR OF
SIR WILLIAM WINGFIELD was the son of Richard
Wingfield, who was lord of the manor of Denington in Suffolk in
the early part of the reign of Edward the Third, of which manor
the Deponent appears to have been seised as early as the year
1349' He was bom about 1326, and was in the sea fight with
the Spaniards near Winchelsea in 1356 ; but he does not mention
any other occasion on which he had served, excepting in the army
in France under Edward the Third in person, in the autumn of
1359, and which menaced Paris in April 1360.
Sir William Wingfield represented Suffolk in Parliament in
the 2nd, 6lh, 7th, and in October 10th Ric. 11. 1386,' when he
was examined at Westmin stcr as a witness in favour of Sir Richard
Serope. The few other notices of him which have been disco-
vered are not important. He presented Thomas Earl of Oxford
with a coat of mail, which the Kail bec[ueathed to his brother, Sir
Alberic deVere in 1371 ;- he was a legatee in, as well as executor
of. his cousin. Sir Thomas Wingfield of Letheringham's will in
1378;' and was bequeathed a sparver and a gold ring by Sir
Nicholas Gernon in ISSi.-*
Wingfield died on the 1st July 1398, and was buried in the
chancel of Denington Church, under a stone ornamented with his
effigy, in armour, his feet resting on a lion, with this inscription: —
^c pctt tumulatud J9amtnuS EZaiTIidmud ZQinsftlUt S&iUa
Sominud iitius btllc ft patronue iitins tcclt^it qui oh. primo
Irfi Jultj SEUcchixxbiii'' cujud animt propittitur titas 9mni.'
He was twice married, but had issue only by his first wife,
Joan, a son William Wingfield,* who appears to have been the
man-at-arms of that name who was in the retinue of his kinsman
the Earl of Suffolk, at the battle of Agincourt. He died without
issue on the 24th August 1418, and his Will, which was dated on
the 25th July 1418, was proved on the 9th February following, by
Katherine his relict, who married, secondly. Sir William Wolfe,
and died in 1445 or 1446.^ The heir of the said William Wing-
field was William de la Pole, Earl and afterwards Duke of Suffolk,
namely, son of Michael, son of Michael de la Pole first Earl of
Suffolk, by Katherine daughter and heiress of Sir John Wingfield
I Blarf's History of Rutland, p. 65. * TestamentaVetusta, i. 87.
' Harleian MS. a" 10, f. 19 b. ' Harleian MS. n" 10, f. 129 h.
* Blore'a Hiatory ofRulland, p,66. * Each. 24 Heo, Vl.n'
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 397
Lord of Wingfield in Suffolk, brother of Richard, father of Sir SrB w..
William Wingfield the Deponent.'
Sir William de Wingfield, aged sixty, armed first in the battle
with the Spaniards, had heard from old knights and esquires that
the arms Azure, a bend Or, had descended to Sir Richard Scrope
from his ancestors. He said that he had seen Sir Richard armed
in those arms before Paris, where he had also seen Sir Henry
Scrope with his banner of the said arms, with a white label. He
had never heard who was the first of the ancestors of Sir Richard
and Sir Henry that had borne the arms, nor of what period they
were; but he had certainly never understood that Sir Robert
Grosvenor had any right to them, having never heard of him
or of any of his ancestors, until the commencement of this con-
troversy.
The arms of Sir William Wingfield were. Argent, on a hend
Gules, cotised Sable, three wings conjoined of the field.
SIR GILBERT TALBOT was the second son of Sir John s.h Gn.
Talbot of Richard's Castle in Herefordshire, by Julian daugliter
of Roger Lord Grey of Ruthyn,- and was bom about 1340.
He accompanied the army under Edward the Third to France
in 1359, and was with it when that Monarch threatened Paris in
the spring of the ensuing year : in 1369 Talbot served under the
Duke of Lancaster, when the English ravaged the Pais de Cau\
in Normandy. He was in the expedition under Lancaster in
Scotland in 1383; and when Richard the Second invaded that
kingdom in 1385 Sir Gilbert served in the royal army. All
which can with certainty be said of him besides is, that he repre-
sented the county of Berks in the Parliament which met at West-
minster on the 1st October 1386,* and was examined there as a
witness for Sir Richard Scrope on the 15th of that month ; that
he married Margaret* the widow of Sir Constantine Clifton and
daughter of Sir John Howard,' by whom, who died in 1431,* he
' Each. 6 Hen. V. □" 20.
' Pedigree in Vincent's MS. in the College of Armi, n" 10, f.322.
' Rot. Clau!. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d.
' The manors of Wykingeshara and Wadele in Berksliire were assigned to her
in dower on the decease of Sir Gilbert Talbot. Esch. 22 Ric. II. second num-
bers, n" 103.
^ Esch. 10 Hen. VI. n" 30. She was buried in the church of the Black Friars,
London. Weever'* " FuDeial Mooumentt," p. B05.
398
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Gilbert
Talbot.
had a son, Richard ; and that he died on the 6th February 13999
seised of extensive property in the counties of Berks, Cam-
bridge, Huntingdon, Rutland, Bucks, and Norfolk.^ His only-
son, Richard Talbot, who was forty-seven weeks old at his father'^s
decease,^ died without issue in 1413.^
Sir Gilbert Talbot, aged forty, armed twenty-five years, had
often heard in the time of the late King that the arms Azure, a
bend Or, had descended to Sir Richard Scrope by right of inhe-
ritance.. He had seen him armed therein in company of the Lord
of Lancaster, then Earl of Richmond, during the expedition of the
late King before Paris, and Sir Henry there also, with his banner
of those arms, with a white label, as well as in the expedition in
Caux with the Lord of Lancaster, and in the expeditions in Scot-
land under that Prince, and lately under the King, and in other
places. He had heard from old knights and esquires that Sir
Richard and his ancestors had always borne those arms, and had
never heard of any one using or doing honour to the said arms
excepting he were of the name of Scrope, who had borne them
from time beyond memory without challenge or interruption by Sir
Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors, or by any person in his name.
The arms of Sir Gilbert Talbot are presumed to have been.
Gules, a lion rampant, within a bordure engrailed. Or ; differenced
by a mark of cadency.^
Sir GiLBBRT
\Ua8.
SIR GILBERT VAAS. There are very few notices on
record of this person or of his family, the name of which is some-
times written "Waas,^ and "Wase.'' In the early part of the
reign of Edward the Second a " Sir William Wase'' of Bucking-
hamshire bore the arms, Barry of six Argent and Gules, on a
quarter of the second a mullet of the first.^
Sir Gilbert Vaas was bom about 1326, and was in the wars. as
early as 1348. He was in the army which invaded France in
1359) and which appeared before Paris in the spring of 1360;
again in the expedition under the Duke of Lancaster at Baling-
ham-hill in July or August 1369» and in the Pais de Caux in Nor-
mandy shortly afterwards ; and he also, he says, served in Scot-
» Esch. 22 Ric. II. n© 47. • Vincent's MS. ja9 10, f. 322.
' Roll of Anns temp. £dw. II. Svo. 1828.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 399
land. In January 1376 Vaas was appointed a Commissioner of Sih
Array in the county of Oxford;' and in October lOth Ric. II.
1386 he was Knight of the Shire for Berks,- on which occasion he
was examined at Westminster as a witness for Sir Richard Scrope.
Only one other fact has been found relating to him, namely, that
on the 10th August 1397 he obtained the King's bond for the sum
of one hundred marks, which he had lent to his Majesty.'
Sir Gilbert Vaas, aged fifty-eight, armed thirty-eight years,
deposed that in all the time that he had been armed in France
and Scotland he never saw any other person than Sir Richard
Scrope, his sons, and his cousins, and other branches of his family,
use the arms Azure, a bend Or. He saw the same arms with a
label on a banner before Paris, in company of the King. He also
saw the said Sir Richard armed in the said arms, and with his
banner, at Balyngham-hill, in Caux, and in Scotland. He had
heard from old lords, knights, and esquires, that the Scropes were
of such ancient ancestry that they were beyond the memory of
man, and had always peaceably enjoyed the said arms without
interruption. He had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of
his ancestors, until the commencement of this controversy.
SIR THOMAS WALSHE. The ancestors of this knight Sis
held Aniep, or Wanlip, in Leicestershire, in the reign of Edward
the First. Sir John Walshe of that place was, by his wife Alicia,
the father of the Deponent,* who was born before the year 13i6.
He was in the expedition in August 1369 under the Duke of
Lancaster, when the English army devastated the Pais de Caux in
Normandy, and served on other occasions in France. In 1383
he seems to have been in the army which invaded Scotland,
and was again there in August 1385, when Richard the Second
entered that kingdom. He was a Knight of the Shire for the
county of Leicester in the Parliament which assembled at West-
minster on the 1st October 1386,* and was there examined on
behalf of Sir Richard Scrope. Walshe, or his wife, built Wanlip
church, in the chancel of which they were buried, and eifigies of
■ FfEdeia, N.E.Tol.iii. piii.p. 1045. ' Rot. Claui.lO Ric. II. m.ied.
' Fddera, Ed. Hagae, iii.p' iv. p. 134.
* Vincenl's Leiceslenhire, in the College of Arras, f. 12; and Nichols's History
of Leicestershire, vol. iii. 1095. ' Rot. Claui. 10 Ric. 11. m. 16 d.
400 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas himself, with his surcoat, charged with his arms, and of her, were
placed on their tomb. Under his effigy was, it is said, this in-
scription : —
®rate pro anima C|)onu QBtUf) ffiHiiiA tpxi |)oc templum &m
fecit ffUtthxxxiii et pro anima itati^mne urorie; ejufl.'
According to the last historian of Leicestershire,^ however, the
following was the inscription round the edge q{ Sir Thomas
Walshe's tomb, which was recently in perfect preservation ;
whence it appears that the church of Wanlip was built by his wife.
Arte Igei^ Cijomail WiaUi^t, &npg|)t, lortle of Sxiltp, axit tianu
itat'int 1)xii \oiU, lol^icf) in |)er tgnu matle ti^e iixk of 9nlq),
axCt liapluti t^t &iritsertl Gri^t, in lDircI)ip of 6oti axiti of
oure lat^s antl degnt i9i(f)oIa£; t^at &€iti |)abe per i^oulei^
an^ . • . mercg. 9nno fi'ni mill*mo etc nonagei^imo tercio.
By the said Katherine, who made her Will in 14*08, Walshe
had four sons ; Sir WiDiam, John,^ and Thomas, who died with-
out issue, and Richard, who was living in 1451. The said Richard
Walshe had a son, Thomas, who died in 1493, leaving two daugh-
ters his coheirs, namely, Helen, who married, first, John Fielding,
and secondly. Sir William Lyttelton of Frankley, and Elizabeth,
the wife of Sir Ralph Shirley.*
Sir Thomas Walshe, aged forty and upwards, armed nineteen
years, deposed to having seen Sir Richard Scrope armed in the
arms Aziire, a bend Or, and also Sir Henry Scrope bearing them
on his banner, differenced by a white label, at Balyngham-hill, and
in the chivauchee in Caux, and others of the same family use
them in other expeditions in France and Scotland ; that they bore
them by right of ancestry and ancient title, without contradiction
from any one; that the Scropes were of ancient descent, as the
Deponent had heard his father say, and from time immemorial,
but he could not state how long the ancestors of Sir Richard had
borne the arms, although they were reputed throughout the realm
of England to be entitled to them. Of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or
» Burton's History of Leicestershire.
' Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol. iii. p' ii. p. 1099.
' Query, was he the John Walshe of Leicestershire who was the husband of
Isabella, then st. 26, daughter and coheir of John Gray in 1403 ? Escb. 4 Hen.
IV. d9 1, * Vincent's Leicestershire, f. 12.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 401
his ancestors, he had never heard until the Kind's last expedition Sih Tuo»
into Scotland.
The arms of Sir Thomas Walshe were. Gules, two bars gemels,
and a bend Argent.*
SIR WILLIAM FLAMVILLE was the representative of |'"^w.l,
an ancient family whicli was descended from Robert de Flamville,
a noble Norman, who obtained the manor of Aston Flamville in
Leicestershire. He was the son of Sir William Flamville of
that place, and was born about 1325. In 1342 he served at the
siege ofVannes in Brittany, after which time he was frequently
engaged in the wars in B'rance and Scotland ; and he particu-
larises the expedition before Paris in 1360, Edward the Third's
last invasion of Scotland, and the invasion of that country by
Richard the Second in person in 1385.
Sir William Flamville was commanded in November 1376 to
deUver seisin of such of the lands as pertained to the Princi-
pality of Wales, in the county of Warwick, to Richard lately
created Prince of Wales.* He was Sheriff of Leicestershire in the
3rd and 12th Ric. II.' and represented that county in Parliament
in the 51st Kdw. 111.* and 10th Ric. II.'' On the latter occasion
he and his colleague, Sir Thomas Walshe, were witnesses in favour
of Sir Richard Scrope. Flamville died between 1395 and 1397,
leaving by his wife Hawise, who survived him, a sole daughter
and heiress, the wife of Richard Tur\ile, of Normanton Turvile
in Leicestershire; and in 1R08 their representative was Francis
Fortescue Turvile of Husbands Bosworlh Hall, Esq.
Sir Wilbam Flamville, aged sixty, first armed at the siege of
Vannes in Drittany, saw Sir Henry Scrop armed in the arms
Azure, a bend Or, in France and Brittany, with the Earl of
Northampton, and with his banner of the same arms, with a label
Argent, and Sir Richard Scrope in the entire arms before Paris,
and also Sir Henry, and others of his lineage, with differences.
The Deponent saw the said Sir Henry Scrope so armed, and with
his banner, in the last expedition which the late King made into
' On the effigy on his tomb, and in the east window of ihe chancel of Wanlip
churcli, and the Roll of Anus in the poasesiion of the Rev. John Newliog.
' Feedera,N.E. Fol.iii. p'ii. p. 106J. ' Harleian MS. 239, f.ll2.
* Lansdowne MS. 229, f. 28. * Kol. CUus. 10 Hie. II. m. 16 d.
VOL. IL 3 F
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402
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sim Wjlliam
pLAMVlLLfc.
Scotland ; and saw Sir Richard Scrope armed in the aatire arms,
and with his banner, in the expedition which the King lately
made in Scotland. He had often heard, in his youth, his ances-
tors, and o]d knights and esquires, say that the arms in question
had descended to Sir Richard in direct line from his ancestors.
Being asked if he had ever heard of any claim made to them by
Sir Robert Grosvenor, the Deponent answered, that he had never
heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, nor of any one bearing the name
of Grosvenor, until this dispute arose in Scotland.
The arms of Sir William Flamville were. Argent, a maunch
Azure.^
Sir W'AMtR
Tah.boys.
SIR WALTER TAILBOYS. The ancestor of this indivi-
dual was Ivo Tailbois, Chamberlain to Robert de Vipont Lord of
Westmoreland in the reign of King John,^ whose descendants
acquired lands in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Sir Henry Tail-
boys died in 1369,' leaving by Eleanor his wife, (who was daughter
and heir of Sir Gilbert Baradon, by Elizabeth, sister of Gilbert de
Umfreville Earl of Angus, and in the 4th Ric. IL was found heir
to her said uncle,^) Walter the Deponent, who was bom about the
year 1363.
Although he stated in 1386 that he had then been armed for
fourteen years, he does not mention on what occasions he had
served ; but it may be inferred that he was in the army in Scot-
land in August 1385, when the dispute arose between Sir Richard
Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor. It appears that he was taken
prisoner by the Scotch some time before 1380, for in that year the
Mayor and Bailiffs of Lynn were commanded to deliver without
delay to Walter Tailboys, in aid of his ransom, the body of Pa-
trick de Cromby, a Scotchman, who had been taken at sea by the
English ;^ and in the same year permission was granted to him
and two others, who had been made prisoners bv the Scotch, to
» Roll of Arms in the possession of the Rev. John Newling. In the reign of
Edward the Second, a Sir Roger Flamville of Leicestershire, bore Argent, a mancli
Gules, besant^e Or.
' Vincent's MS. in the College of Arms, marked B 2, f. 332.
' Esch. 43 Edw. III. no 36. ♦ Esch. 4 Ric. II. n° 57.
* Rot. Scoc. 4 Ric. II. m. 6.
Sm RICHARD SCROPE. 403
export to Scotland, in aid of the payment of their ransom, forty s
quarters of barley.'
Tailboys represented Lincolnshire in Parliament in October
1386,- when he was examined in favour of Sir Richard Scrope : in
1384 he was a Commissioner of Array for the district of Lindsey;^
and in the 13lh Ric. II. was Sheriff of that county.* In June
1395 Lord Willoughby of Eresby prayed him to assist in the
fulfilment of his Will;' and on the IGth August 1401 he was
Bummoned to attend a council at Westminster." Sir Walter
Tailboys was again a Commissioner of Array for the district of
Lindsey in May 1415,' and in June following was an attorney for
John Tailboys, probably his son, who was about to serve under
Henry the Fifth in France.^ He died in 1417," leaving by Mar-
garet his wife, who survived him, two sons ; Walter, his heir,
then upwards of thirty years of age,^ and John Tailboys, of Stal-
lingburgh. Esquire, whose granddaughter and heiress married
John Ayscough.'" From Walter Tailboys, the eldest son of the De-
ponent, descended Sir Gilbert Tailboys of Kyrae, who was created
a Baron by Henry the Eighth, and died ISth April 1530. His
daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married, first, Thomas Wymbish,
Esquire, and, secondly, Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick ; but
dying without issue, the descendants of her aunt, the daughter of
her grandfather Sir George Tailboys, became the representatives
of the family.'"
Sir Walter Tailboys, aged thirty-three, armed fourteen years,
had never heard to the contrary but that the arms Azure, a bend
Or, belonged by right of inheritance to Sir Richard Scrope; and
had heard from his ancestors that the Scropes were descended
from nobles and gentles, and had been in peaceable possession of
the said arms from the time of the Conquest, as he learnt from
his ancestors and from old knights and esquires. He had never
heard who was the first ancestor of Sir Richard that bore the
arms in question, for the family was ancient, and of times beyond
* Rot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d.
B Ric. II. m. 10. » Harleian M8. 259, f.4a.
« CoUonian MS. Cleopatra, F. n:. f. 19 a.
* Fcedera, iii. p' ii, p. 131.
"• Vincent's MS. B 3, f. 332.
3f2
' HotScoc. 4 Ric. II. m.e.
' Rot. Scot. T Ric. II. m. 4, and
' Teslamenta Velusla, 1. 137.
' Ftedera, it. p' ii. p. 125.
' Eseb. 5 Hen. V. n' 18.
^m
Sib Walter
Tailboys.
404
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
memory. The Deponent had never heard of Sir Robert Gro»-
venor, nor of his ancestors, until the commencement of this contro-
versy in Scotland.
The arms of Sir Walter Tailboys were, Argent, a saltire Gules,
charged with a trefoil slipped Or ; on a chief of the second three
escalops of the first.^
Geoffrey
Chaucer, Esq.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER, Esquire. The names of Chau-
cer^s parents are unknown, and the conjectures which have been
hazarded on the subject are too vague to justify the adoption of
either of them.* Upon a supposed reference to himself in one
of his works, he is considered to have been bom in London ;'
but no reliance can be placed on that authority. The time of
his birth has lately been much discussed,^ in consequence of
the statement in his deposition in the Scrope and Grosvenor
controversy, that he was in October 1386 of the age of " forty
and upwards,'' and " had been armed twenty-seven years,'' which,
if strictly correct, would make him to have been bom about
1345, and to have served for the first time in the field in
1359 ; whereas the birth of the Poet has been always hitherto
assigned, though without any positive evidence, to the year 1328.
There are, however, strong reasons, derived from many passages
in his own works, and in the writings of Gower, for believing that
he was bom long before 1345; and the many instances which have
been adduced of the mistakes that occur respecting the ages of the
deponents, of whom some are stated to have been ten, and others
feven twenty years younger than they actually were, prevents
Chaucer's deposition being conclusive on the point. It is there-
fore possible that he was ten, or even fifteen years above forty in
1386. He had, he said, borne arms for twenty- seven years, on
which subject the Deponents were generally more correct, so that
> Vincent's MS. B 2. f. 332.
' Leland says, he was of a noble family ; Pitts, that he was the son of a knight ;
Speghty that his father was a vintner ; and Hearne, that he was a merchant.
' *' Testament of Love/' book i. sect. 5. *' Also the citye of London that is to
me so dere and swete, in which I was forth growen ; and more kindely love have I
to that place, than to any other in yerth, as every kindly creture hath full appetite
to that place of his kindely engendrure, and to wilne reste and pece in that stede
to abide." * Godwin's Life of Chaucer, vol. i. p. xxi. et seq.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 405
assuming that he was about fifty-five when examined at West- ^""
minster, he did not commence his military career until 1359) at
which time he was above twenty-eight. It is said that he was a
member of the Inner Temple, and that whilst there he was fined
two shilhngs for beating a Franciscan friar in FJeet Street,' *hich
agrees with his being brought up to the law; and Leland observes,
that after he had travelled in France " collegia leguleiorum fre-
<)uentavit." Nothing, however, is positively known of Chaucer
unlil the autumn of 1359, when he was in the army with which
Edward the Third invaded France. This fact is learnt from his
deposition ; whence it is evident that he was first armed on that
occasion. He was, he says, made prisoner by the French near the
town of Retters, during that expedition, which terminated with the
peace of Chartrcs in May 1360. Between 1360 and 1367 nothing
is recorded of Chaucer, so that it is unknown when he was ran-
somed and returned to England. In 1367 he was one of the
'■ King's valets," a situation generally filled by gentlemen, the du-
ties of which consisted in attendance on the royal person ; and by
the designation of " our valet," the King granted him, on the 20th
of June in that year, an annual salary of twenty marks, in conside-
ration of his former and future services.' Three years afterwards
he was in the King's service abroad, and on the 20th June 1370
obtained the usual letters of protection for one year ;' from which
fact it maj be presumed that he was then in the wars of France.
On the i2th November 1372, Chaucer being at that time one of the
King's esquires, he was joined in a commission with James Pronam
and John de Man, citizens of Genoa, to treat with the Duke and
citizens of Genoa, for the purpose of fixing upon some place on
the coast of England where the Genoese might form a commercial
establishment.*
At this period of Chaucer's life he was married, and some
remarks as to the name of his wife, will be found at the end of the
memoir. The next notice of Chaucer is that on the 23rd of April
1374, when a pitcher of wine daily was granted to him for life, to
be received from the hands of the King's butler in the port of
' Speght, wlio states thai a Mr. BucklBy had se«ii a record of tlie Inner Temple
10 that effect. ' Rol. Pat. 41 Edw. Ill, p. 1. m. 13.
^ Rol. Pat. 44 Edw. III. p. 2, m. 20. ' Rot. Franc. 46 Edw. III. m. 8.
406 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Geoffrey London.^ On the 8th June 1374 he was appointed Comptroller
C^iiAuc£R Esq
of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins, and Tanned
in the Port of London, during the King^s pleasure, receiving
the same fees as other comptrollers, and it was provided that
he should write the rolls of his office with his own hand ; he was
to be continually present, and was not allowed to perform his
duties by deputy.* In November 1375 he obtained a grant of
the custody of the lands and person of Edmond, son and heir of
Edmond Staplegate of Kent,' who became of age within three
years after his wardship was granted to Chaucer; and in the
petition of the said Edmond Staplegate the son, claiming to ex-
ercise the office of Butler at the coronation of Richard the Se-
cond, by tenure of the manor of Bilsynton in Kent, he says that
he had paid Chaucer for his wardship and marriage the sum of
104/.* The only record which has been found connected with his
execution of the office of Comptroller of the Customs is dated
on the 12th July 1376, when the King granted him 71/. 48. 6d.,
being the price of some wool that John Kent of London conveyed
to Deerdraught without having paid the duty, which sum had
been obtained as a fine from the said Kent.^ In February in the
following year Chaucer was joined with Sir Guichard d'^Angle,
afterwards Earl of Huntingdon, and Sir Richard Sturry, to nego*
ciate a secret treaty respecting the marriage of Richard Prince of
Wales with Mary daughter of the King of France. The English
envoys met those of France at Montreuil-sur-Mer, where they
remained some time, and then returned to England ; and in conse-
quence of their proceedings the truce with France was prolonged
to the first of the ensuing May.^ Letters of protection were grant-
ed Chaucer in consequence of his being employed on this mission,
dated 12th February 1377, which were to endure until Michaelmas
in that year; but on the 28th April other letters of protection were
issued from that day to the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, 1st
August ensuing.
King Edward the Third died in June in that year, and these
» Rot. Pat. 48 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 20. « Rot. Pat. 48 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 7.
3 Rot. Pat. 49 Edw. III. p. 2,m.8. ♦ Rot. Claus. 1 Ric. II. m. 45.
^ Rot Pat 50 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 5. ^ Froissart par Buchon, vi. 102, 305.
SIR RICHARD SCROPJ:. 407
documents are the last of his reign which relate to Chaucer, in do
the latest of which he is styled the King's Esquire.
The accession of Richard the Second proved favourable rather
than injurious to Chaucer's interests. The annuity of twenty
marks, which was given him in 1376, was confirmed by letters
patent, dated on the 23rd March 1378,' and in lieu of the pitcher
of wine daily, an addition to his former salary, of twenty marks
a-year, was granted to him in April following.- On the 8th May
138-2 he was appointed Comptroller of the Small Customs in the
Port of London during pleasure, which office he was to execute in
person or by his sufficient deputy, and the King's seal, called the
Coket, was to remain in his or his deputy's custody.' He still
retained the situation of Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidies
which Edward the Third bestowed on him; and in November 1384
he was permitted to absent himself for one month from the du-
ties of that office, on account of his own urgent affiurs, and the
Collector of the Customs was commanded to swear in his deputy.*
A further favour was conferred on him on the I7th of the follow-
ing February, by his being allowed to nominate a permanent
deputy in that situation.^ Chaucer was elected a Knight of the
Shire for the county of Kent in the Parliament which met at
Westminster on the 1st October 1386, his colleague being William
Betenham, and his mainpernors were William Reve and William
Holt. They were allowed 2il. 9s. for their expenses in coming
to, being at, and returning from the said Parliament.^ Whilst
attending his Parliamentary duties he was examined at Westmin-
ster, on the 16lh of October, as a witness for Sir Richard Scrope,
and his deposition is material for the information which it con-
tains respecting himself, and interesting from the anecdote which
he relates. It does not appear that he ever sat in Parliament
excepting on that occasion, and no fact has been discovered of
him after October 1386 until May 1388, on the first of which
month the grant of forty marks a-year, before noticed, was, at
his request, cancelled ; and for the good service which John
Scalby had performed, and intended to perform to the King, the
1 Recited on the Paieni Roll of 11th Ric. 11. p. 2, m. 1. ' Ibid.
' RoL Pal. 5 Ric. II. p 2, m. 15. * Rot. Claus. 8 Ric. II. m. 30.
" Rol. Pat, 8 ttic. 11. p. 2, m. 31. ' Ilo(. Claus. 10 Ric. U. m. 16d.
1
408 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Geoffbev saij annuity was granted to him for his life, or until the King
otherwise provided for him.^ On the 12th July in the ensuing
year he was appointed to the office of Clerk of the King*"» Works.
His duties, which he was permitted to execute by deputy, are
fully described in the Patent :^ his salary was two shillings per
diem, and there were probably liveries, and other sources of profit.
He enjoyed the situation but a short time, and the only document
known .to exist, relating to his performance of its duties, is dated
in July 1390, when he was commanded to procure workmen and
materials for the repairs of St. George'^s Chapel at Windsor.* It
has not been exactly ascertained when Chaucer was superseded, but
on the 22nd January 1391 he appointed a deputy, and as early as
the 16th September in that year, a John Gedney was Clerk of the
Works.* On the 28th February 1394 he obtained a grant of 20/.
yearly for life.* In 1395 or 1396, he was one of the attomies of
Gregory Ballard, to receive seisin of the manor of Spitelcombe
and other lands, in Kent.^ On the 4th May 1398, letters, of
protection were granted him, stating that whereas the King
had appointed his beloved Esquire Geoffrey Chaucer, to perform
various arduous duties in divers parts of the realm of England,
the said Geoffrey, fearing that he might be impeded in the execu-
tion thereof by his competitors,*^ by means of various suits, had
prayed the King to assist him therein, and his Majesty conse-
quently took the said Geoffrey, his tenants and property, into his
special protection, forbidding any one to sue or an^est him on any
plea excepting connected with land, for the term of two years.
On the 13th October in the same year he obtained another grant
of wine, but in different words from the former, for, instead of a
pitcher daily, he was to receive one ton every year during his life."
On the 3rd October 1399, Henry the Fourth granted him forty
marks yearly in addition to the annuity of 20/. which Richard
had given him ;9 and on the 18th of the same month, having made
» Rot. Pat. 11 Ric. II. p. 2, m. 1.
« Rot. Pat. 13 Ric. II. p. 1, m. 30. » Rot. Pat 14 Ric. 11. m. 33.
* Godwin's Life of Chaucer, iv. 67, 68, on the authority of the Patent Rolls
14 Ric. II. p. 2, m.34, and 15 Ric. II. p.l, m. 24.
» Rot. Pat. 17 Ric. II. p. 2, m. 35. • Rot Claus. 19 Ric. II. m. 8 d.
7 « eraulos." • Rot. Pat 22 Ric. II. p. 1, m. 8.
^ Rot Pat. 1 Hen. IV. p. 5, m. 12.
SIE RICHARD SCROPE. 409
oath in Chancery that the Letters Patent of the late Monarch, of Geo»
the 28lh February 1394, and 13th October 1398, had been acciden-
tally lost, he obtained exemplifications of those records.' The only
record of Chaucer after this grant is a lease, dated at Westminster
on Christmas-eve 1399, by which Robert Hermodes worth, a monk
and keeper of the chapel of the Blessed Mary of Westminster,
with the consent of the abbot and convent of that place, demised
to him a tenement situated in the garden of the said chapel, for
fifty-three years, at the annual rent of 2/. 13s, 4d, ; if any part of
the said rent was in arrears for the space of fifteen days, power
was given to the lessor to distrain, and if Chaucer died within
that term, the premises were to revert to the Custos of the said
chapel for the time being, no that in fact the Poet had only a Ufe-
in teres t therein.''
Chaucer's death is said to have occurred on the 25th October
1400, but this statement appears to stand on no better authority
than the inscription placed on his tomb in the rdgn of Edward
the Sixth.
It is difficult to state with certainty whom Chaucer married,
and there is even less evidence respecting his children. The most
general opinion is, that his wife was Philippa, daughter and co-
heiress of Sir Payne Roet, King of Arms of Hainault, and sister
of Katherine, widow of Sir Hugh Swynford, who was the mistress,
and afterwards the wife, of John of Gant Duke of Lancaster;
hut there is evidence to shew that her name was Philippa Pycard.
In January 1370 Edward the Third granted to Philippa Pycabd,
" domicella" to Philippa his late Queen, one hundred shillings
per annum.' There can be no doubt that it was this lady to
whom, by the description of Philippa Cliaucer, late " una domi-
ceUarnin" of Philippa Queen of England, King Richard the Se-
cond confirmed his predecessor's grant of ten marks a year, which
sum was paid to " Geoffrey Chaucer her husband"" on the 21th
May 1381.* On the 13th June 1374 the Duke of Lancaster
granted to Geoffrey Chaucer and his wife Philippa an annuity of
10/. for life, in consideration of the good services which they had
1 RoL Pal, 1 Hen. IV. p. 1, m. 18.
Printed in Godwin's Life of Chaucer, iv. 365, from the original, i:
possession ofihe Dean and Chapter of Westmioster.
' Rot. Pat, 43 Edw. III.p.2,in.l. * Exitua Paschffi,4 Ric. II.
VOL. II. 3 a
i
410 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Geoffiey rendered to the Duke, to his Duchess, and to the late Queen
ChavceRi Esq* ,
his mother/ This gift seems to have been in lieu of a grant
made by the Duke before August 1372, on the 30th of which
month his Receiver General was commanded to pay to ^^ Phi-
lippa Chause^^ her annuity of 10/., which had been granted dur-
ing pleasure.^ The said Philippa is recorded to have received
her pension out of the Duke of Lancaster'^s revenues in November
1379 ;^ and in 1381 and 1382 that prince presented her with some
ornaments or jewels as new yearns gifts.^ Chaucer appears, there-
fore, to have married Philippa Pycard between January 1370 and
August 1372.
The poet^s wife Philippa was living in 1382, after which time
nothing is known of her. He is supposed, besides Thomas Chau-
cer, to have had a son named Lewis ; for in the ^^ Treatise on the
Astrolabe/^ Chaucer thus speaks of him: ^^ Little Lowis, my sonne,
** I perceive well by certain evidences thine abilitie to leame sciences,
^^ touching numbers and proportions, and also well consider I thy
^^ busie prayer in especial to leame the Treatise of the Astrolabie.^'
At that time Louis was not more than ten years of age ; as he says
he was induced to compile that treatise, because the previous
descriptions of the Astrolabe were ^* to harde to thy tender age of
ten yere to conceyve,** and that he wrote in English, " for Latine
ne canst thou nat yet but smale, my little sonne.*"
Thomas Chaucer, who is said to have been the poet's eldest
son, was born about the year 1372, and became, by his alli-
ances and services, a person of considerable importance. Before
1392, he married Maud the second daughter and coheiress of Sir
John Biu'ghersh, at which time she was found to be one of the
heirs of her father, and twelve years of age :* he acquired with her
large estates in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, among which was
Ewehne, in the latter county. Thomas Chaucer died on the 18th
November 1434, and Maud hi^ wife on the 28th April 1436, and
are buried under a handsome monument in Ewelme church in
Oxfordshire.* Their only child Alice must have been bom about
' Registram Johannis Ducis Lancastris, in the office of the Duchy of Lancas-
ter. These facts have very recently been discovered.
« Esch. 15 Ric. II.
' Monumental inscription. See a view of their tomb in Speght's edition of
Chaucer, and in Skelton's Histoiyof Oxfordshire.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
1404, as she was found to be thirty-two years of age at her mo- Gi
ther's decease.^ She married first Sir John Phelip, K.G., who died
iasueless in 1416:- her second husband was Thomas fourth Earl of
Salisbury, who died in 1428, without children by her;' and about
October 1430, she married William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk,*
who was afterwards created Marquess and Dulje of Suffolk, by
whom she had three children.* The fate of tlie Duke of Suffolk,
who was attainted and beheaded in 1450, is well known. Their
eldest son, John de la Pole, who was created Duke of Suffolk in
1463, married the Princess Elizabeth Plantageiiet, sister of King
Edward the Fourth, and had by her a numerous family. John de
la Pole, their eldest son, was created Earl of Lincoln, vitfi patris,
and by Richard the Third was declared heir apparent to the throne,
in the event of the death of the Prince of Wales without issue.
He was slain at the battle of Stoke in 1487, and died without
children ; and, being attainted, his honours were forfeited. Alice
Duchess of Suffolk died on the 20th May 1475, and the de-
scendants of Thomas Chaucer are presumed to be extinct.* She
was buried at Ewehne, where a splendid tomb was erected to her
memory.^
Geoffrey Chaucer, Esquire, of the age of forty and upwards,
armed twenty-seven years, being asked whether the arms, Azure,
a bend Or, belonged to Sir Richard Scope, said yea, for he saw
him so armed in France before the town of Retters, and Sir
Henry Scrope armed in the same arms with a white label, and
with banner ; and the said Sir Richard armed in the entire arms,
and so during the whole expedition, until the said Geoffrey was
taken. Being asked how he knew that the arms appertained to
Sir Richard, said, that he had heard old knights and esquires
say that they had had continual possession of the said arms;
and that he had seen them displayed on banners, glass, paint-
ings, and vestments, and commonly called the arms of Scrope.
, Being asked whether he had ever heard of any interruption or
' Each. 15 Hen. VI. DO 53. ' Esch.3 Hen. V. n» 42.
' Each. 7 Hen. VI. n" 5T.
' The seUlemenl before marriage, dated t2th October, 9lh Hen. VI. 19 among
the Harleian Charters in ihe British Museum, marked 54 1.9.
» See an elaborate pedigree of De la Pole in Fmsl's Notices of Hull, p. 31.
' Engraved in Skelton's History of Oxfordshire.
3c2
CfUUCtH.EsQ.
412
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
GiorFRsr
ClAUCUly
challenge made by Sir Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors,
BO, but that he was once in Friday Street, London, and walking
through the street, he observed a new sign hanging out with these
arms thereon, and inquired ^what inn that was that had hung
out these arms of Scrope ?* and one answered him, saying,
* They are not hung out. Sir, for the arms of Scrope, nor painted
there for those arms, but they are painted and put there by a
Knight of the county of Chester, called Sir Robert Grosvenor ;*
and that was the first time that he eyer heard speak of Sir Robert
Grosvenor, or his ancestors, or of any one bearing the name of
Grosvenor.
The arms of Geoffrey Chaucer are considered to have been.
Per pale Argent and Gules, a bend counterchanged : Crest, a
unicornis head issuing from a ducal coronet ; which arms were also
borne at one period by Thomas Chaucer,^ but he afterwards
relinquished them and assumed Gules, three Katherine wheels Or,
though it would seem that he retained his crest, for the feet of his
effigy on his monument rest on a unicorn couchant
DEPOSITIONS TAKEN BEFORE SIR JOHN DERWENTWA-
TER, IN THE SAID REFECTORY OF THE ABBEY OF
WESTMINSTER, ON THE 19* OF OCTOBER.
William
LoBo Dacik.
WILLIAM LORD DACRE. This young nobleman was
the son of Hugh fourth Lord Dacre, by Elizabeth, daughter of
Alexander Lord Maxwell, in Scotland.' He succeeded to the
Barony on the death of his father in December 1383,' at which
time he was about twenty-five years old. Lord Dacre first served
in the field in 1382, and was knighted under the banner of Richard
Lord Scrope of Bolton, at Dumfries, in 1383. Soon after his
father^s decease he was in the army in Scotland, in consequence
of which he obtained respite of his homage ;^ and he was again in
the wars of Scotland under the King in person in August 1385.
He was first summoned to Parliament in March 1384, and
* A sketch of Tliomas Gbaucer's seal, with those aims and crest, occurs in the
Cottonian MS. Julius C. rii. f. 153.
' DougWs Peerage of Scotland. ' Esch. 7 Ric. II. n^ 30.
« Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 23.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 413
having received a Writ to the Parliament which met at West- J'
minster on the 1st October 1386, he was examined there on behalf
of Sir Richard Scrope, on the 19th of that month. In the follow-
ing year he was in the garrison at Berwick with Sir Henry Percy,
who was then Governor of that town.'
Lord Dacre died on the 22nd July 1398,^ aged about forty,
and by Joan his wife, daughter of James Earl Douglas, K.G. had
William sixth Lord Dacre, then twelve years old, ancestor of
the subsequent Barons Dacre of Gillesland, or, as they were some-
times termed, " of the North." The present representative of the
Deponent is Thomas Brand, seventeenth Baron Dacre.
The Lord Dacre, aged twenty-seven, armed four years, said,
that he had seen Sir Richard Scrope raise his banner of the arms
Azure, a bend Or, and that he (the Deponent) was knighted
under that banner at Dumfries. He stated, that he bad been in
two expeditions where the said Sir Richard was armed, the one to
Dumfries, and the other in Scotland with the King. Lord Dacre
added, that in the Priory of Lanercost were these arms on glass,
in the windows of the church ; and the canons of that place say,
that the said arms had been there since the building of their
church, and that they were on their vestments from time be-
yond memory, and on paintings, and that they were commonly
called the arms of Scrope. The Deponent had heard from his
ancestors, now no more, that the Scropes were descended from
an ancient and noble family from time immemorial. He had
never heard of Sir Hobert Grosvenor, or his ancestors, until the
last expedition into Scotland,
The arms of Lord Dacre were. Gules, three escallops Argent.
SIR THOMAS TRYVET. The name of this distinguished f
soldier is well known to the readers of Froissart, who has comme-
morated his deeds with such elaborate care as to render it pro-
bable that he was influenced by personal friendship, it is pre-
sumed that he was the son of the Sir John Tryvet* who, Frois-
sart says, was in the wars of France in 1367 and 1369,* the
representative of an ancient family in Somersetshire, by Joan,
■ Dngdale's BarDDage, ii. 33. ' Esch. 22 Ric. II. n° IS.
* Pedigree ioHacleianMS. 1052, r,]6. ' Ed.Buchon, iy. 376, v.44,77,lia.
414 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas dauffhter of Gournev, sister of Sir Matthew Goumay,^ and was
T R Y VET
bom about 1350. He commenced his career in arms, according to
his own statement, at the siege of Becherell by the French, in
Brittany, in 1373 ; but Froissart states, that Tryvet was at that
time defending St. Saviour le Vicomte.*
In the 1st Ric. II. Sir Thomas Tryvet was retained to serve
under John of Gant, King of Castile, in Gascony, and was to be at
Plymouth by the 9th March 1378,* on the 16th of which month he
obtained letters of protection.* It was intended that Lord Neville
and himself should embark at Plymouth for Bordeaux with 1000
men-at-arms and 2000 archers, but the Duke of Lancaster's army
having required all the vessels, they were detained at Plymouth
more than four months ;^ but in another place it is said that their
detention arose from a foul wind, and lasted only one month.^
They at length sailed with a fleet of one hundred and twenty ves-
sels and forty barges, and arrived at Bordeaux on the 7th Septem-
ber 1378.^ The army under Lord Neville proceeded to the relief
of the town of Mortaine, which they succoured with men and pro.
visions ; and on their route took the castle of St. Leger, and other
fortresses, after which they returned to Bordeaux.^ Neville ap*
pointed Sir Thomas Tryvet, whom Froissart calls ^*ua moult
vaillant chevalier,^ commander of six hundred men^t-arms and
one thousand archers, to assist the King of Navarre against the
Spaniards. On receiving Lord Neville^s orders, he is reported to
have said : ^* Sir, you do me more honour than I deserve. I shall
obey you, and acquit myself in this expedition to the best of my
power.^ He soon afterwards left Bordeaux, and took the route
of Dax in Gascony. His uncle. Sir Mattliew Goumay, who was
then Governor of Dax, received his nephew with great kindness ;
and at his request Tryvet assaulted several fortresses, and other
* Froissart par Buchon, vii. p. 140 — 145. The pedigrees of the Tryvet family
are contradictory and imperfect The Towneley MSS. state that the Deponent's
mother was Isabella, and that his grandmother was Joan the daughter of Matthew
Foumeaux, whilst the Uarleian MS. n** 1052, makes his mother to have been Joan
third daughter of Matthew de Foumeaux.
• Vol. vi. 38. 191. 271. 275. 292.
' MS. marked Vincent's " Exitus," in the College of Anns, f. 21.
♦ Carte's Gascon Rolls, i. 164. • Froissart par Buchon, viL 98.
' Froissart par Buchon, vii. p. 119, 120. ^ Ibid. p. 121, 124.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 416
places, which were occupied by the Bretons, before pursuing his SiftTHowis
march to Navarre,' The King of Navarre, annoyed at the delay
of the English, dispatched a messenger to Tryvet, to hasten his
arrival, who found him besieging the castle of Poulart, near Bay-
onTie, but immediately after its surrender be proceeded to Na-
varre, and joined the King at St. Jean du Pied des Ports. The
news of their arrival induced the Spaniards to raise the siege of
Pampeluna, whither the English went, and, having refreshed
themselves for a few days, they took up their winter quarters at
Tudela,*^ Tryvet, to give employment to his men, secretly pro-
jected an incursion into Spain, and on the night of Christmas-eve
marched against Le Vale de Soria, intending to take that town by
surprise. The weather, however, defeated his purpose, and the
English proceeded to Cascente in Normandy, having plundered
and burnt several villages on their march.' In the spring of 1379
Sir Thomas Tryvet distinguished himself at Alpharo in Spain, and
the town itself was only prevented from falling into his hands by
the gallantry of the women, who closed the barriers and gates,
mounted the walls, and made all other preparations for defence
with so much skill that lie was compelled Co abandon his design of
assaulting it.* Soon after that event peace was concluded between
Spain and Navarre, and the English forces returned to Bordeaux,
and thence to England.* Tryvet and his gallant companions found
the King with the Duke of Lancaster and the Earl of Cambridge
at Chertsey, who received them very graciously,'*
About the middle of 1379 John Lord Arundel was sent into
Brittany with two hundred men-at-arms and four hundred archers,
having under his command Sir Hugh Calverley, Sir Thomas Ba-
naster, and Sir Thomas Tryvet. They embarked at Southampton,
but the fleet was dispersed by a storm, in which Arundel and
' Froissart par Bucbon, vii. p. 140 — 145. The following notices re!ati»e to
Ttyvel's services under the King of Navarre, occur in theFtedera, iii. p'iii. p. 129;
Tryvet received on the aoth October 1378, from John Lord Neville, Lieutenanl
of Acquitaine, " for serving tbe King of Navarre in liis wars for two months, wiih
" eight score ' combataus,' whom he brought oul of England, to pay their wages,
" one thousand six hundred franks. Also, for twenty nicn-at-arms and twenty
-' archers in his retinue, serving as above for two months, each n
" his aicher receiving twenty franks per month, eiglit hundred franks."
' Froissan paiBuchon, vii, p, 145 149. ' Ibid.p. tSO— 1'
' Ibid. 154—156. ' Ibid. 156—160. ' Ibid. p.
n6 D£P03rE!iT3 nr fatocbl of
lereral of fab retiaiie perxabcd, and die odier ^easda.^ in
wfakii wa» Trrret, hsfing with grest cfificxzitj recamcd tx> Soudw
jBnptDii, the expeditioii was ahandoned,'^ In Jolr 1380 he was m
the annj with which the Earl at Bockiiigfaam hraded at Calawsj
and Biarched dmx^^ France into Brittani.^ He is iwCired as
hafing been prMent at a skimdjh near Cltrj^ oa the Snmme,
when he captured the Lord of Brimcn and his two aona^' and
a few dajs afterwards defeated a detachment of the Duke €£
Borgmid J near Ferraqnes.^ During this expedition Sir Thonms
TrjTet's gaJhaxt setriccs were rewarded with the rank of Banneret.
The arm J baring appeared before Trorv heralds were sent into
the citj to challenge the garrison to gire them battle; and
befiire thdr retom Trrret presented hioiseif to the Earl of Buck-
ii^ham and dahned the dignitj of Banneret. Hcdcfing his bm^
ner, furled, in his hand, he said : ^ Sir, if it please too, I wish
^ in this jonmej to disfdaj mj banner, for, thank God, I hare
^ sufficient rerennes to maintain the estate as a Banneret ought.'*'
— ^ It pleajies us well,^ refdied the Earl, and taking the staff
in bis hand, he returned it to him saying, ^ Sir Thomas, God
** grant that jou maj act noUj there and erer after f^ Tryret
then took his banner and displajed it, and deliTcring it to n
confidential esquire, rode to the Tan, as the Constable, Lord
Latimer, commanded him.^
On approaching Vendome Sir Thomas Tryret and Sir WiDiani
Clinton attacked the Lord of Hungest, and compdled him to take
shelter in that town, baring made his lnx>ther and twelre others
prisoners.^ As soon as the Engli^ reached Rennes Sir Robert
Knolles, Sir Thomas Percy, and Tryret, with fire hundred lances,
were dispatched to the Duke of Brittany, whom they met near
Vannes, and returned with him and the Elarl of Buckingham to
Rennes.* During the siege of Nantes, in December 1380, it was
proposed again to send those knights to the Duke, to remonstrate
with him for not affording his utmost aid to the English, but the
was given up, from the fear of weakening their forces ; and
*4
> Froiinrt par Bachoo, Tii. p. 280—282. * Ibid. p. 316.
» Ibid. p. 325, 326, 327. * Ibid. p. 329.
* Lixenlly, ^that y<m may prore yonr right to it;^ ** Diea voos laist &ire
Totre preu cj et autre part.'' ' Froissart par Buchoo, rii. 343.
^ Ibid. p. 369. * Ibid. p. 384.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 417
on Christmas-eve a skirmish occurred with the besieged, in which S'rTi
Tryvet was engaged.^ Peace being shortly afterwards concluded
between the Duke of Brittany and the French, Buckingham's army
returned to England. In 1383 Sir Thomas Tryvet was one of the
knights who served under Henry Bishop of Norwich in the cru-
sade against the sect termed "Clementines," and he landed at
Calais on the 23rd April 1383.« On the 1st June he was appointed
a Commissioner to treat with the inhabitants of several towns in
Flanders :' he continued there during the siege of Ypres, and
was one of the English knights who were permitted by the French
to quit Bourbourg when they besieged that place.*
Upon the return of Sir Thomas Tryvet and his companions to
England, the Commons complained loudly of their conduct in not
having been more successful in Flanders;'' but the popular displea-
sure fell chiefly on Tryvet and Sir WiUiam Elmham, who were
accused of having sold Bourbourg and Gravelines to the French.
They were arrested and committed to the Tower ;* and in the Par-
liament which met at Westminster in November 1383, articles of
impeachment were exhibited against them and the Bishop of Nor-
wich,* Tryvet replied to the cliarges, that he never granted safe
conduct to any of the King's enemies, excepting to certain poor
people, who brought provisions ; and that he had never received
any thing from the enemy excepting food, and similar things; in
truth of which statements, or if he had in any point acted wrong,
he threw himself on the King's grace, " high and low." Parliament,
however, considered him and tlie other prisoners guilty, and ad-
judged them to make full payment to the King of what they had
received from the French, and ordered that he, with Elmham, Sir
Henry Ferrers, and Robert Fitz Ralph, should be committed to
prison, and from thence be ransomed at the King's pleasure, due
consideration being had to the extent and nature of their respec-
tive misdeeds.^ A writ was issued to the Sheriffs of Somerset and
Dorset on the 6th March 1384, reciting the above proceeding, and
commanding them to levy 1400 franks of gold, the sum which he
Frolasart par Buchon, viji
. p. 409.
' Ibid.viii. p..
100—403.
Frndera, ii
i.p'm.p.l53.
* Froissart,
viii. pp. 443, 45
1,468, and vol.
FroiBsart,
vol. ix. p. 1 el
seq.
Itol. Pari.
, iii. 15a_158
. This subject
bas been already noticed in
ojr of Robert Filz Ralph.
' Rot. Pari.
iii. 1S7, 158.
'OL. U.
3h
418 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas was said to have been paid by the French, od his lands and chat-
Tbyvet.
tels, and to seize his person, and produce him before the Eling and
Council in the quindismes of Easter next following.^ Tryvet'^s
imprisonment and the displeasure of his Sovereign, were not of
long duration. Early in 1385 he was selected to serve in the
army which it was proposed should be sent to Bordeaux ; but that
intention being given up,^ he attended Richard in his invasion of
Scotland in August following, with a retinue of twenty men-at-
arms and twenty archers, being then in the King'*s division.'
On the 26th February 1386 Sir Thomas Tryvet was appointed
Admiral of the Fleet in the western parts of the kingdom ;* and in
October following was at Westminster during the meeting of Par-
liament, when he gave his testimony in favour of Sir Richard
Scrope ; but it does not appear that he had a seat in that assem-
bly. In the same year he was retained by indenture to serve the
King against his domestic enemies, in which instrument he is
styled a " Banneret.*"* When the schism arose between Richard
the Second and his uncles, Tryvet was named as one of the royal
favourites who abused the confidence of the King ;^ and on the 4th
January 1388 he was committed to Dover Castle, with Sir John
Salcsbury, Sir John Beauchamp of Holt, and John Lincoln Clerk ;
Tresilian, Brembre, Burley, and the other persons who were ac-
cused by the Lords Appellants, being sent on the same day to other
prisons.^ His name does not occur in the proceedings of the Par-
' liament against the prisoners, in the ensuing February, which
Froissart attributes to his having died in the following manner :
> Foedera, iii. p» iii. p. 165. * Froissart, ix. 77. ' Archaologia, xxii.
* Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 151. The original indenture on this occasion is
preserved among the Harleian Charters, marked 49 D 3. It was dated at West-
minster, 26th Feb. a» 9 Ric II. 1386, whence it appears that '< Mons** Philip Sire
de Darcy** was Admiral of the North, and ** Mons' Thomas Tryvet'' Admiral of
the South and West ; that they were to serve the King ** sur la meer en une petite
armee de neifs, baiges,«t balingers,*' for forty days next ensuing, with 250 men-
at-arms, knights and esquires, including themselves, ** des quelx hommes darmes
serront douze chivalers, et ovesque deux centz et cinquante archers, outre lour
chamberleins,'' who were to be ready to embark on the 26th of April next ensuing,
receiving the wages and rewards accustomed. TryveCs seal b attached to the
instrument.
^ MS. marked Vincent's ^' Exitus," in the College of Arms, f. 27.
' Froissart par Buchon, ix. 225, x. 413, xi. 10 etseq.
^ Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 17.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
419
" The same week that he was sent for, being in his own house in |^
" the north parts, he rode into the Belds on a young horse, and
" spurred him so that the horse ran away with him over bushes
" and hedges, and at last fell into a dike and broke his rider's
" neck. Sir Thomas Tryvet died much lamented by many good
" men in the realm, yet his heirs were obliged to pay a certain sum
" of florins to the Council on the King's account."' The conclu-
sion of this passage as well as the context prove that Froissart has
confounded the proceedings against Tryvet in 1383, relative to the
affair in Flanders, with the charges against the royal favourites
in 1388- It is, however, certain that he was released from his
imprisonment in Dover Castle, and that he did not die until the
6th October 1388,- nearly nine months after his commitment.
His death is thus described by Stow, whose account partially
agrees with that of Froissart. " On the 6th of October 1388,
" during the meeting of the Parliament at Cambridge, as Sir
" Thomas Tryvet was going with the King to his lodging at
" Barnewell besides Cambridge, he forced his horse too much with
" the spur, his horse fulleth, and breaketh in a manner all the
" inner parts of his rider, who yet lived until the next morrow,
" which time was given him of God to repentance, if he would
" accept it, for he was a man of a haughty stomach, and not be-
" loved of the common people." ' At the time of his decease he
was about thirty-eight years of age: by Elizabeth, the daughter
and heiress of Sir Philip Tymbury,' and widow of Thomas Swyn-
bourn, who survived him until 1433,' he left two daughters his
coheirs, viz. Anne, who was seven, and Joan, who was five years
old at their father's decease.^ Anne married Sir William Clin-
ton, and had an only child, who died without issue before 1420;
and Joan was the wife of John Ward, Esq., but she also died
issueless before that year.' On the decease of Elizabeth Lady
Tryvet, their mother, in 1433, John Tryvet, the son of Thomas,
son of Robert, son of James, son of Matthew, son of William
' Froissart par Buchon, xi. p. 10 et seq.
' Ksch. 12 Ric. II. n" 53. All ihe Inquiiitions agree in fixing his decease to
Ihe 6th October 1 38B. ' Slow'» Annals, p. 304,
' Petligtee in the Towneley MSS. ' Esch. la Hen. VI. n" 33.
' Esch. 12 Ric. II. n° 5a.
' Pedigree in die Towneley MSS. ; and Harieian MS. n= 1052, f, 16.
3h2
^
4flO DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas Trvvet, bv Sarah, daughter of Robert de Eston» was found heir
to certain lands which had belonged to the Deponent.^
Sir Thomas Tryvet, aged thirty-six and upwards, armed sinoe
the siege of Becherell, had never heard of any person bearing the
arms Azure, a bend Or, excepting of the name of Scrope, or of
any interruption to the use of them before the dispute which arose
in Scotland. The Deponent had seen in one place or other the
kinsmen of Sir Henry and Sir Richard armed in these arms during
the whole time in which he had served, and wherever he had been
they were always reputed to be their arms. ' He affirmed, that
before this debate he had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor,
nor of any of his lineage, that he knew of.
The arms of Sir Thomas Try vet were. Argent, a try vet Sable.'
> £sch. 12 Hen. VI. n^ 35. Inquisitio capta apud Ivelcestr^ in Vigil. Sancti
Mathei Apostoli anno regni regis Henrici Sexti 13^, &c. ** Juratores dicunt quod
Willielmus Tr3rvet chiraler, filius Thome Trvvet chivaler, fiut seisitus de me-
dietate Manerii de Puryton, &c. et cepit in uxorem Sanam filiam Robeiti de
Eston, &c. £t predicti Willielmus et Sarra habuerunt exitum inter eos Wil-
lielmum, Romundum, et Matheum. £t predicta Sarra obiit Tunc predictus
Willielmus pater cepit in uxorem Aliciam, et habuerunt exitum inter eos Wil-
lielmum, Thomam, Johannem, Nicholaum, Baldewinum, Agatham, Thomesiamy
Sibillam, Deonisiam, et Isabellam. Postmodumque predictus Willielmus pater
obiit, postcujus mortem Willielmus filius ejusdem Willielmi et Sarre in omnibus
terris intravit ut filius et heres predicti Willielmi et Sarre, et habuit exitum
Thomam, et obiit. Predictus Thomas habuit exitum Johannem, et obiit. Pre-
dictus Johannes habuit exitum Thomam Tryvet militem, nuper maritum Elizai-
bethe Tryvet in dicto brevi nominat', qui quidem Thomas in omnibus terris ut
filius et heres predicti Johannis intravit.'' (The inquisition then goes on to state,
that this Sir Thomas Tryvet granted the said lands to certain persons, who regrant-
ed them again to him and his wife Elizabeth, and the heirs of their bodies begot-
ten ; and for default of such issue, to the right heirs of the said Sir Thomas Tryvet
for ever.) " Virtute cujus doni predicti Thomas et Elizabetha fuenint inde seisiti ut
de feodo talliato. Et predictus Thomas obiit absque aliquo herede inter ipsum et
predictam Elizabetham de corporibus suis procreato. Postmodumque predicta
Elizabetha totum statum suum cuidam Johanni Tryvet adhuc superstiti, ut consan-
guineo et heredi predicti Thome filii Johannis, videlicet, filii Thome, filii Roberti,
filii Jacobi, filii predicti Mathei, filii predicti Willielmi et Sarre, sursum reddidit.
Et dicunt quod Romundus, frater predicti Mathei, diu ante mortem predicti
Thome filii Johannis, obiit sine herede de corpore suo exeunte. Et predicta Eliza-
betha obiit sine herede die Lune prox. ante festum Sancti Nicholai Episcopi prox.
preteritum."
• Arms on hb seal to the Indenture in February 1386, before cited, in the
British Museum, Ilarleian Charter 49 D 3.
SIR RICHABD SCROPE. 421
SIR BERNARD BROCAS. This eminent soldier was the Si« Bw
third son of Sir John Brocas ofBeaurepaire in the county of South-
ampton, who represented an ancient family which was seated at
that place.' Sir John Brocas, the eldest son, was slain in a naval
engagement with the French near Southampton, and died without
issue,' Sir Oliver Brocas, the second son, who was Seneschal of
Guienne and Governor of Bordeaux,' married Margaret, the niece
of Sir Andrew Peverell,* and by her had a son, John, who suc-
ceeded his father in 1361,' and was found heir to his grandfather.
Sir John Brocas, on his death in January 1365 :* he was then of
full age,* but dying issueless on the 2Glh September 1377,' his
uncle, the Deponent, became the heir of his family, and inherited
Beaurepaire, with the other estates of his ancestors.
Sir Bernard Brocas was born as early as the year 1330, and
must have been at least fifty-six when ho made his deposition,
though he is stated to have been then forty. This is, however,
shewn to be a mistake, not only by his saying that he had been
" forty years" in the wars, but by his statement that he was first
armed at La Hogue, which afi'air occurred in 1316. From that
time to the end of the reign of Edward the Third he served in the
wars of France, Brittany, Scotland, Spain, and in Gascony, and
was apparently one of the heroes of Cressy, Poictiers, and Najara-
Brocas obtained letters of protection in consequence of going
abroad in the King's service in 1355, in May 1356, and in March
1361." He was appointed a Commissioner on the following occa-
sions : to review men-at-arms, archers, and mariners, in March
1378; to muster the men-at-arms and archers of the Captain of
Calais, and of other fortresses and castles in the adjacent parts, in
May following; to continue the alliance made between Edward the
Third and the Earl of Flanders in June 1379 ;' for the release of
Waleran, Count of St. Paul, in July ensuing;* and to muster the
men-at-arms and archers in the retinue of Richard Earl of Arundel
' Heralds' Visitation of Hampshire, in the College of Arms, marked K.8, f.l61.
The inscription on hii raoDunent states that he was a lineal descendanl of Sir
Bernard Brocas, a younjer son of the Conle de Faix, who came into England with
Williara the Conqueror. ' Esch. 49 Edn. III.
' Escii. 37 Edw. III. n» 7. ' Esch. 46 Edw. III. n" 6. ' Esoh. 1 Ric. II.
' Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 58, GO, 8S ; and Fadeni, iii. p' i. 119.
Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 124, 135, 126. ' Fmdera, iii. pi iii. p. 88.
439 0EPO5EST3 a FATOCB. OF
IB Mav 138T ;' ami tlioae in the ledniie of Sir Tluiiun I^fTCj in
Ma; ]38&^ Sir Benuni Braa» was «laaritutcd Captmi and
Keeper of the Caatle of CalaiB fiir one jear on tfael^tfa July 1377,'
wfaicfa commianoo wm renewed on ibe lA Xarcii 13T8.* In Janu-
ary 13B4 the ciutady- ttf Saiu%AE Cnde was entrusted to him ^
aad in Aogiitf 1385 he «as in the anny widi wfatcfa Bichanl the
Second invaded Scotland. Broe» rqnnjented the county of Sotith-
jmpton in the PaiiiBiiait wfnch met at WatminateT in October
1386,^ when he gave his tettimtKy in the Scrope and Grosrcnor
controversy. He was Lord Cbanberiain to Qoeen Anne, oooaort
of King Richard,^ and in ri^t of his wife was hoeditary Ma^fT
of the Buck-hounds. Sir Bamrd Broeaa died in 1396,* and wsa
buried in St. Edmund's Chapd in Westnanster Abbey, where a
splendid tomb was erected to his memory, with his effi^ in com-
fdete annooT-^ On the ledge (^ the tofob was this inacripdoo : —
Kc jaat BwMi^rt Snctf ff3t< C C taenia' conczr'
Sbbc Si^pnc 9a^' cw^ a it p'piriwwr Bntf Smii.
At the bade of his tomb one rf his descendants Las plM:ed a
b»g descriptum of his ex|dtut&. By his first wife, Haiy, dau^i-
ter aai heir of Sir John de la Roches and widow of John Bor-
hont, be had three dangers ; label, wifif of Sir John Gtda&e ;
Eliaabeth, the wife al Thomas Mnaaendoi ; and Jane, the wife
at Robert Dynelcy ; and a son. Sir Benuid Brocasji^ wbo was
forty-two yean of i^ at his btber's decease.'^ He was one
df the consfKiaton against Henry the Fonrtii, of wboae execu-
tion in 1399 a terrific accoont is given by Fmiimirt ^ Wiffiam
Kocas, bis MO and heir, who was bom m 1388, was restored to
his fiober's fxnperty, and was ancestor of the sabsequent inberi-
tors of Beanrepaire.^ Sir Benuud Broa», the deponoit, mar-
' Cartel Gaacaa BoOi, a. 158. * Ibid. L ITS. > Ibid. iL 124.
* BoL FiaDc 1 Bic 11. p. ii. n. 20. * Cane's Gaacon Bolb, iL lu.
■ Rm. Cbas. 10 Bic n. nt t« d.
* A beiwitifiil OigiwiDg of dkii tomb ig
Efipea.- » Hcnkfa' Ts
" Each. 19 Ric.ILD* 3.
° HoaUi' \~iaitMiao of UampArc
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 423
ried, secondly, Katharine, who died in 1399, leaving her sister, ^*" ""^"
Elizabeth Clynton, her heir.'
Sir Bernard Brocas, aged forty, first armed on the sea shore
at La Hogue, had heard from old knights and esquires that the
arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged to Sir Richard Scrope by right
of inheritance. He saw Sir Henry Scrope bear them with a dif-
ference, and Sir Richard Scrope in the entire arms, as well as his
cousins armed in them with differences, in divers expeditions in
France, Scotland, Gascooy, Brittany, and Spain, in the presence
of Kings, Princes, Dukes, Earls, Barons, and other great lords,
knights, and esquiree, the Deponent having been in those expedi-
tions for forty years. The answers of the Deponent to the usual
interrogatories, as to the ancestors of Sir Richard Scrope, were
generally of the tenor of those of the other witnesses. He had, he
said, no knowledge of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of any one of his
name, until the last expedition in Scotland with the King.
The arms of Sir Bernard Brocas were. Sable, a lion rampant
gardant Or. His crest, a Moor's head with an Eastern crown,* is
said in the inscription at the back of his monument, to have been
acquired in consequence of his having conquered the King of
Morocco in battle.
JOHN ROOS, 8IXTH Baron Rods op Haulake, succeeded J""^ ^'
his father, Thomas fifth Lord Roos, who died at Uffington oo
his way to the Holy Land, on the 8lh June 1384, leaving the
Deponent about eighteen years of age.' His mother, Beatrix,
daughter of Ralph Eurl of Stafford, was the widow of Maurice
Fitz Maurice Earl of Desmond : she took to her third husband
Sir Richard Burley, K.G. in 1385,« and died in April 1415*
John Lord Roos served in the army which invaded Scotland in
1383, and again under Richard the Second in person in August
1385^ In the following year he made proof of his age;^ and
' Esch.32Kic.II. □»8, and Esch. 19 Ric. IL ii° 3.
' Heralds' Visitation of Haiopshire; ibe Harleian Chatter 47 C 16; and his
tomb. ' Esch.SRicII.iioea.
' ViBCent's MS. in the College of Arms, n» 20, f. 331 ; and the elaborate pedi-
gree of Roos in Baker's Histoiy of Northamptonshire, i. 269.
* Esch. 3 Hen, V. n° 44. ' f cedera., iii. p' ill. p. 184.
Dugdale's Baronage, i 551.
424 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
JoBN Lord whOst EttendiniT the Parliament which met at Westminster in
Root.
October 1386, gave his testimony in the Scrope and Gxosvenor
controversy. In 1387 he was in the fleet commanded by Richard
Earl of Arundel against the French :* in 1388 h^ was a W^arden
of the Marches,^ and in August 1389 was one of the Commis-
sioners to treat for peace with the Kings of France and Scotland,
and their allies, and to preserve the truce with those countries.*
Lord Roos was summoned to Parliament from the 8th of August
1386 until his death. On the 27th May 1390 he was present in
the Palace at Westminster, when sentence was pronounced in the
cause between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor;^
and in June following was a Commissioner to enforce the provi-
sions of the treaty made at Lelingham with the Scotch.^ In
June 1391 he was appointed Judge of a combat between Ralph
Lord Neville and Alexander de Lindsey, a Scot, who had ca-
lumniated the said Lord, as well as of a combat between Sir
Thomas Colville, Sir John Etton, and four other Englishmen,
against certain Scotchmen.^ Early in 1393 he undertook a pil-
grimage to Jerusalem, but being seized with a mortal illness at
Paphos in the Isle of Cyprus, died there on the 6th August
1393, aged about twenty-eight :^ his body was brought to Eng-
land, and interred in the Abbey of Rievaulx in Yorkshire^ He
married Mary, the only child of Henry Lord Percy by his second
wife, Joan, daughter and heiress of Philip de Orreby ; but by her,
who survived him a year, Lord Roos had no issue. William Roos,
his brother, succeeded to the dignity, and was the ancestor of
the succeeding Barons Roos of HamlakeJ
The Lord Roos of Hamlake, aged twenty-one, armed three
years, said he twice saw Sir Richard Scrope in Scotland in the
arms Azure, a bend Or, and with a banner; once under the Lord
of Lancaster, and afterwards when the King lately made his expe-
dition thither. He had heard from very old knights and esquires,
then deceased, that the arms belonged to the Scropes. He had
* Dugdale*s Baronage, i. 551. * FoBdera, iii. p' iv. p. 46.
* Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 60. ♦ Ibid. iii. pt iv. p. 61. 68.
* Ibid. iii. p* iv, p. 70.
' Dugdale's Baronage, L 551 ; and Esch. 17 Ric. II. n*^ 49.
f Dugdale^s Baronage ; and Baker^s Uistoiy of Northamptonshire, i. 269.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 425
never heard speak of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of any of his name, ■^"^" ^
until the late expedition into Scotland with the King,
The arms of Lord Roos were, Gules, three water bougets
Argent.
JOHN THIRLEWALLE. A family of this name, and to Job»
. . Tbible
which it is likely that this individual belonged, was seated for
many generations at Thirlewalle Castle in the county of Northum-
berland ; but there does not appear to be any pedigree which has
been traced to the Deponent, nor are there materials for compiling
it. His deposition is particularly interesting, and is remarkable
for the extraordinary statement that his father died at the age of
one hundred and forty-five years; but there are strong reasons,
independently of its great improbability, for doubting the accu-
racy of that assertion.
According to Thirlewalle's statement, his father was bom in
the year 1197, and he himself was bom aTwutlSSS; so that he
must have been begotten when his father was above one hundred
and thirty-five years old. It is obvious that the period of the
elder Thirlewalle's service was chiefly in the reign of Edward the
First, and it may be assumed, from what occurs in the deposition,
that he was present at the battle of Falkirk. That event occurred
in 1298, at which time, if the date assigned to his birth be correct,
he was upwards of one hundred years of age. The period during
which he bore arms is fixed at sixty-nine years, and assuming that
he first served in the field, as was usual, at fifteen or sixteen, he
would be about eighty-five when he retired from military duties;
but these facts do not agree with his having been at Falkirk in
1298, for if he were born in 1197, commenced his military career
in 1212, and served only sixty-nine years, he must have retired
about 1281, just seventeen years before that battle. The proba-
bility, if not certainty, is, therefore, either that the Deponent was
mistaken about his father's age, or that the person who took down
his statement, or he who copied it on the roll in the Tower,
committed an error on the subject. That the elder Thirlewalle
attained a very advanced age is unquestionable ; and if he be
considered about sixty at the battle of Falkirk in 1298, and to
have died in 1314, he must have been a centenarian at his decease.
VOL. II. 3 I
426 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
•^OHN John Thirlewalle, the Deponent, was the younfi^est son of his
Tbirlewalle. 1 -I 1 -^ o
parents. He appears to have been the person who was appointed
a Warden of the Western Marches in Cumberland and West-
moreland, and a Commissioner of Array for the defence thereof in
1369,^ and to whom, and to Christiana his wife, Thomas de Pen-
reth granted lands in the forest of Inglewood in that county,
about the same time.^ It is manifest from his deposition that he
served for many years in the wars ; and it would seem that he was
in the army before Paris in 1360, at Balingham-hill and Caux in
the autumn of 1369 under the Duke of Lancaster, and in the ex-
pedition under the King in person in Scotland in August 1385.
Thirlewalle represented the county of Cumberland in the Par-
liament which met at Westminster in October 1386,' and was
examined in Westminster Abbey on the 19th of that month as a
witness for Sir Richard Scrope, which is the last notice that has
been found of him.
John Thirlewalle, of the age of fifty-four, armed thirty-two
years and more, being asked whether the arms Azure, a bend Or,
belonged to Sir Richard Scrope, said, certainly, and that he would
well prove it by evidence; for the grandfather of the said Sir
Richard, who was named William Le Scrope, was made a knight
at Falkirk in Scotland under the banner of the good King Edward
with the Longshanks, as his (the Deponent^s) father told and
shewed him before his death, for his father was through old age
bedridden, and could not walk for some time before his decease ;
and whilst he so lay he heard some one say that people said that
the father of Sir Richard was no gentleman because he was the
King's Justice; and his (Deponents) father called his sons before
him, of whom he the said John was the youngest of all his
' Rot. Scot. 39 £dw. III. m. 4. Letters of protection were grouted in 1365 to
John de Thirlewalle the elder, being in the King's service as well in Scotland as in
England^ and to las' tenants in Grenhowe and Rylejrgh in Lidale in the county
of Roxburgh. (Rot. Scoc. 39 £dw. III. m. 4.) In 1379-80, John Thirlewalle
" the elder'' was a Warden of the Northern Marches in the county of Northum-
berland, and a Commissioner of Array for the defence of the same. (RoL Scoc. 3
Ric. II. 1379-80, m. 5.) It is not likely that either of these notices relate to the
Deponent; because he could scarcely have been described as " the elder '^ in 1365,
when he was only thirty-two years old.
« Rot Orig. vol. ii. p. 296. ' Rot. Claus. 10 Ric. II. m. 16 d.
SIR RICHAHD SCROPE. 427
brethren, and said, ' My sons, I hear that some say that Sir J
' Henry Scrope is no great gentleman because he is a man of the
' law, but I tell you certainly, that hia father was made a knight
' at Falkirk in those arms, Azure, a bend Or, and they are
' descended from great and noble gentlemen ; and if any one say
' otherwise, do ye testify that I have said so of truth, upon faith
' and loyalty ; and if I were young I would hold and maintain
' my saying to the death.' And his (the Deponent's) father,
when he died, was of the age of seven score and five, [^y ans & v.]
and was when he died the oldest esquire of all the North, and had
been armed during sixty-nine years, and he has been dead forty-
four years. In his time he had heard many knights and esquires
of his country state that these arms belonged to Sir Richard Scrope,
and never heard them in any part of England or elsewhere where
he had been, say otherwise than that the said arms had always
belonged to those who bore the name of Scrope, and to none other
within the r^alm of England, and were always so reputed, and
had been in their constant possession. The said Sir Richard his
branches and cousins were so armed in France at Balyngham-hill,
Caus, before Paris in the late King's expedition, in Gascony with
the Prince, in Brittany with the Duke of Lancaster, and he had
heard, that one died in Prussia in the said arms who bore the
name of Scrope, and another in the company of the Earl of Here-
ford beyond the great sea ; and, as they say, in the North Coun-
tries, where the Scropes resided, they had borne that name and
those arms ever since the Conquest. He had never heard of Sir
Robert Grosvenor, or of any of his ancestors, until the last expe-
dition of the King in Scotland.
The arms of Thirlewalle were, Sable, a chevron Argent between
three boars' heads couped Or.'
SIR L^WIS CLIFFORD, K.G. The statements respect- s
ing the parentage of this celebrated person are erroneous. Dug-
dale,^ and all other genealogical writers who have noticed him,
assert that he was a younger son of Roger fifth Lord Clifford, by
Maud daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp Eorl of Warwick ; but
' Vincent's " Northumberland," in the College of Arras.
' Dugdole's Baronage, i. 341.
^
428 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib Ltwu t}iu js nroved to be impossiUe by the fact that Thomas the ddat
son of the said Lord Clifford and Maud de Beauduunp was onlj
about twenty-five years old at his father^s death in Jtilj 1389»^ so
that he was bom after 1364 ; whereas the Deponent must have
been bom at least as early as 1336, because he says he was more
than fifty years old in 1386, which the notices that are recorded of
his life corroborate.
Sir Lewis Clifford was probably a younger son of Robert third
Lord Clifford, who died in 1344, by Isabella daughter of Maurice
Lord Berkeley, whose eldest son, Robert fourth Lord Clifford,
above-mentioned, was bom in 1331 ; but in the Liquisition on the
decease of the said Robert Lord Clifford in 1344, three sons cmiIj
are mentioned ; namely, Robert, Roger, and Thomas. Froissart,
however, supports the conjecture that he was the son of Robert
third Lord Clifford by Isabella de Berkeley, for in speaking of Sir
Lewis in 1385, he calls him '* brother to the Lord,^* the Lord
Clifford in that year being Roger the fifth Baron, second son of
Robert third Lord, and heir to his brother Robert fourth Lord
Clifford. The resemblance which his arms bore to those of the
Barons Clifford, they being merely differenced by a bordure, also
renders it likely that he was closely connected with them.
Sir Lewis Clifford first served at the battle of St. George,^ and
about Easter in 1352 he was one of the knights who fought under
Sir John Beaucfaamp near St. Omer in a '^ fait d'^armes,'" when the
English were defeated, and Beaucfaamp, Clifford, and others, were
made prisoners.^ In November following he was commanded to
deliver to Thomas de Holland the fortress and town of Cruyk in
Normandy, of which it would appear he had been appointed Go-
vernor.^ Clifford was retained to serve in Acquitaine in 1363,^
and seems to have been in Spain in 1367, in April in which year
the battle of Najara was fought. In July 1373 he was in the
army with which the Duke of Lancaster marched through France
to Bordeaux ;7 and in June 1376 was present at Westminster at
the publication of the Will of Edward the Black Prince.® From
> Esch. 13 Ric. II. n» 14.
' Par BuchoDy ix. 150. '^ Messire Louis Clifford fr^re au Seigneur."
' For some remarks on the affair so designated, see the notes.
^ Froissart par Buchon, iii. p. 39—47. ' Fcedera, N. E. vol. iii. p. 383.
* Cottonian MS. Julius, C iv. f. 296. ^ Froissart par Buchon, vi. p. 57. 223.
• Nichols's Royal Wilb.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 429
this time until after the accession of Richard the Second nothing ^i"
has been found respecting him. The next notice of him is in June
1383, when his services in the field were dispensed with, and he
was commanded to remain in attendance on Joan Princess of
Wales, the King's mother,' in whose household he is presumed to
have held a confidential situation. He was constituted one of the
Princess's executors in August in that year,' and the fact that he
fulfilled a similar trust for the following persons, is strong proof
of the confidence which was generally reposed in his probity and
abilities:— Guichard D' Angle Earl of Huntingdon in 1380; Sir
Thomas Latimer of Braybroke in 1401 ; Anne Lady Latimer in
1402; and Isabel Duchess of York in January 1392.' The
Princess of Wales having died in 1385, he served in the expedi-
tion into Scotland towards the close of that year, and being one
of the garrison of Carlisle, commanded that city when it was
besieged by the French, who were repulsed with great gallantry.*
According to Froissart, Clifford accompanied the army under the
Duke of Lancaster to Spain in 1386, as he says he was appointed
Captain of the town of St. James, with thirty lances and a hun-
dred archers;* but he was at Westminster in October in that
year, and made his deposition on behalf of Sir Richard Serope.
His evidence on the occasion is chiefly remarkable for the im-
patience he evinced at being interrogated, in which feeling he
was not singular : on the 22nd November 1389 he was appointed
a Commissioner to hear the appeal in the Serope and Grosvenor
controversy."
One of the most memorable events in Sir Lewis Clifford's
career is his having become a. convert to the doctrines of the Lol-
lards ; but towards the close of his existence he recanted his errors
and renounced their tenets. His religious opinions, in May 1389,
induced him to become a party to the letter which several other
eminent individuals addressed to the Pontiff, respecting the ex-
cesses of the Court of Rome ;' and in the next year he was one of
the ambassadors sent to negociate a peace with France, of whose
reception in Paris Froissart has given a glowing description."
' Fiedem, iii. p' iii. p. 184. ' Nichols's Bojfd Wills, p. ao.
* Teatamenta Vetuita passim. ' Froissart par Buchon, ix. 150.
• Ibid, tome I. 3S3. ' Rot. Pat 13 Kie. II. p. a, m.a7.
' FtEdem, iii. p'iv. p. 59. ' Tome xii. p. 314— 322
1
490 DEPOXESTTS IX FATOUK OF *
Curl^K.G. ""^ ^^ ■^•^ thai in the <« grand tmt d^nnnes* wUcli took
place in the Maidies of CaLus in Maj 1390» Sir Liewis encoun-
tered the Lard of Boucicault, and acquitted liimaolf with great
honour ;i but as he caDs him in the next paragraph *^ le Sire de
ClifRirt,'" it is more likdj, from the age of the Lord diiSBardy th«t
it was he, rather than the Deponent, wlio distinguidied J^i—^^^iK on
that occasion. In 1396 or 1397 Sir Lewis was styled ^ the King^s
Knight,'^' whidi title was also attributed to him in the next
reign.' The oonspicaous station wfaidi he occupied in the opi-
nion of his Sovereign, is shewn bj his being dected a Kni^it
of the Garter in 139^^ in the room of Ingdram de Coo^ Earl
of Bedford.
About 1402 Sir Lewis Clifford withdrew from theLoIIarda, and
it is said that in his confession he disclosed the names of the chief
persons of that sect.^ That this act arose fiiom the desire to atone
for his errors ratho' than from a worse motive, may be inferred
from his Will, an instrument in whidi men are sddom hypocriti-
cal, wherein he evinces the deepest contrition for his apoatacy. It
was prepared shortly before his decease, and betrays the paigiiant
ranorse und^ which he laboured in so striking a manner, that a
copy of it is a necessary illustration of his life :
** In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, Amen. The
sevententhe day of September, the yere of our Lord Jesu Christ
a thousand foure hundred and foure, I Lowys Clyfforth, fals and
traytor to my Lord God, and to all the blessed ccHopany of
Hevene, and unworthi to be depjd a Cristen man, make and
ordeyne my Testament and my last Will in this manere. At the
b^ynning, I most unworthi and Goddis traytor, recommaunde
my wrechid and synfule soule hooly to the grace and to the grete
mercy of the blessed Trynytie ; and my wrechid careyne to be
beryed in the ferthest comer of the chircheyerd in which pariche
my wrechid soule departeth fro my body, and I prey and charge
my survivors^ and myne executors, as they wollen answere tofore
God, and as all myne hoole trust in this matere is in hem ; that
on my stinking careyne be ney ther leyd clothe of gold, ne of silke,
I Froissart par Buchon, xii. p. 130. * Esch. 20 Ric. 11. n* 83.
* Rot Pat 1 Hen. IV. m. 28, by which Heniy the Fourth confirmed all the
grants made to Sir Lewis Cliflbrd by Richard the Second. ^ Walsingham.
* Sicf query surveiors, t. e. supervisois.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE- 431
but a black clothe, and a taper at myne bed, and another at my s
fete, ne stone, ne other thinge whereby any man may witt where
ray stinkyng careyne liggeth. And to that chirche do myne
executors all thingis, which owen duly in such caas to be don
without eny more cost saaf to pore men. And also I prey my
survivors and myne executors, that eny dette that eny man kan
axe me, by true title, that hit be payd. And yf eny man kan
trewly sey that I have do hym eny harme in body or in good,
that ye make largely his gree whyles the goodys wole strecche.
And I wole also that none of myne executors meddle or mynystre
eny thinge of my goodys withoutyn avyse and consent of my
survivors, or sum of hem,
" Now first I bequethe to Sire Philype la Vache, Knight, my
masse-booke, and my porhoos ; and my book of Tribulacion to
my daugter hys wyf.
" Et quicquid residuum fuerit omnium et singulorum bonorum
et cataloruin superius seu inferius legatorum, do integre et lego
Philippo la Vache Johanni Cheynee et Thomas Clanvow mili-
tibus libere sibi possidendum ; ac pro libito voluntatis sue tan-
quam dc bonis et catallis suis propriis inde disponendum et facien-
dum absque contradictione, calumpnia, seu perturbations cujus-
cunque, pro me vel nomine meo aliqualiter iude faciendum.
Hujus autem testamenti, ultimte voluntatis mee, facio, ordino, et
constituo executores bonorum meorum et administratores Johan-
nem Andrew, Johannem Carleton, Walterum Gaytone et Thomam
Barbowe : et ipsi Deum prie oculis habentes omnia [et] singula
praimissa faeiant et fideliter perimpleant el excquantur ad hono-
rem Dei et utilitatem populi sui secundum dispositionem & con-
cilium atque assensum supervisorum meorum ; viz. Philippi la
Vache, Johannis Cheyne, et Thomse Clanvow militum, vel alicujus
eorum. In cujus rei testimonium huic prssenti Testamento el
ultima; voluntati mea; sigillum meum apposui. Dat' Sec. die et
anno supradictis." Proved 5 Dec. 6 Hen. IV. ]40i.'
Early in 1404 Henry the Fourth revoked the grant of his
predecessor, of the manor of Ryseburgh to Sir Lewis for life ;"
and as his will was proved on the 5lh December in that year, he
must have died shortly before that time. He is stated to liave
' Dugdaie's Baronage, vol. i. p. 341. ' Rot. Pal. 5 Hen. IV. p' 2, m. 15,
432 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Lewis married Eleanor daughter of John Lord La Warr, and by her to
have had a daughter, who married Sir Philip la Yache, whom he
mentions in his Will, and a son, William Clifford. Of the existence
of his son of that name no proof has been found ; but in June
1390 the King granted to Sir Lewis for life the manors of Toftes
in Norfolk, Warmyngton in Warwickshire, Spedbury in Dorset-
shire, and Aston in Berkshire, with remainder to his son Liewis de
Clifford, for the term of his life ;^ of which son nothing more is
known. From the William Clifford whom genealogists consider
to have been the Deponents son, they deduce the pedigree of the
Cliffords of Kent and of Wiltshire; and whether the statement
respecting the said William be correct or not, there are the fol-
lowing grounds for believing that those families sprang from Sir
Lewis: —
First — Sir Lewis Clifford had certainly one son, who was living
in June 1390. Secondly — Sir Lewis was connected with Kent, in
which county he obtained a grant of the third part of the manor
of Meere for life in 1385. Thirdly — ^The frequent occurrence of
the baptismal name of *^ Lewis^ in the pedigree of the CliiFords
of Kent.* Fourthly — The identity of the arms.
Sir Lewis de Clifford, aged fifty and upwards, first armed at
the battle of St. George, said that he never heard the arms Azure,
» Rot. Pat. 14 Ric. II. p. 1. m. 21.
* A William Clifford of Kent^ Esquire, who is considered to have been the
son of Sir Lewis the Deponent, died in 1437, seised in right of his wife, Cliza-
beth, daughter and heiress of Sir Arnold Savage and widow of Sir Reginald
Cobham^ of the manor of Sutton Valence in Kent, leaving Alexander Clifibrd,
son of Lewis Clifford, (his eldest son^ who died vit& patris,) his grandsoD and
heir. Elizabeth, the wife of William Clifford, died in 1440, and the said
Alexander was found to be her grandson and heir. (Esch. 19 Hen. VI. n^ 11.)
Alexander Clifford made proof of his age in the 29th Hen. VI. 1450, and on the 17th
January 1452 executed a deed, dated at Gowtherst on Monday after the octaves of
the Epiphany 30 Hen. VI. in which be styled himself " Alexander Clifford son of
Lewis Clifford,'' vesting the manors of Shome and Traceis in Kent, in certain
persons as hb attorneys. The seal attached to that instrument contained the same
arms as were borne by Sir Lewis Clifford the Deponent, namely, Cheeky, and a
fess within a bordure ; but impaling six lions rampant, 3, 2, and 1. His crest
seems to have been a helmet with a plume of feathers. The seal is inscribed
<< S. Alexand. Clyfford." (Harleian Charters 48 C 36.) The said Alexander is
supposed to have married Margaret daughter of Walter Colepeper, whose monu-
mental inscription in Bobbing Church, as given in Weerer's Funeral Monuments,
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 433
a. bend Or, attributed to any other person than Sir Richard Scrope. Sm Le»ii
To other interrogatories he observed, that without asking more
questions, he would state briefly, that throughout his life he had
often heard talk of, and had himself seen, Sir Henry Scrope and
his brotliers and sons armed in those arms with differences, and Sir
Richard and others of his lineage in divers expeditions of the King
in France, Spain, and Scotland, and never saw any one in them
except those bearing the name of Scrope : nor had he ever heard
of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of his ancestors, until the conunence-
ment of this debate in Scotland.
The arms of Sir Lewis Clifford were. Cheeky Or and Azure, a
fess Gules, within a bordure of the third.*
JOHN SCHAKEL, Esqoire. Nothing has been discovered JoknSoh*«e
respecting the parentage of this individual. The statement in his
deposition, that he was forty-five years old in 1386, cannot be
reconciled with his having been first armed in the year when the
battle of Morlaix was fought, as that event occurred in 1342;
hence he must have been nearly sixty instead of forty-five when
examined on behalf of Sir Richard Scrope, Though the notices
of Schakel are very few, he is, from one circumstance in his life,
well known to history, and has been commemorated as a valiant
soldier.- It appears that he served in most of the wars of the
middle and latter part of the reign of Edward the Third, and that
he was present at the battle of Najara in Spain in April 1367,
in which conflict, according to the decision of the Prince of Wales
states tha.t she died on (he igth January 1488, but the anas impaled with those of
Clifford on the seal of the said Alexander Clifford in 1452, were certainly doI tlie
coat of Colepeper, but seem to be the arms of his grandmother's family, Savage.
The slalemeot that his wife was called Colepeper is, however, corroborated by a
John and Richard Colepeper beiog two of his attorneys in January 14SZ.
Alexander Clifford died in 1494, and raenlionect in his Will hia son Lewis
Clifford, and his relation, probably his nephew, Leteii Blewet. As Alexander, the
son of Lewis Clifford, who died before his lather William Clifford, was bom as
early as 1429, hia father Lewis must have been bom before 1409, that is, within
four years of the decease of Sir Lewis the Deponent ; hence, if William Clifford
was related to that person at all, he must have been his son, aod the grounds for
believing that such was the lacl are so strong as scarcely to admit of a doubt.
' Roll of Arras in the possession of the Rev. Johti Hewling.
* Thomas of Walsingfaam, p. 216.
VOL. It. 3 K
9
I
I
. 434 0EPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
^ I John Schakel, and Sir John Chandos, he and another esquire, named Robert Hall
* or Hauley, made the Count de Denia, a Spanish nobleman of
k great distinction, prisoner.^ Several records are extant connected
f with the ransom of the Count, whence it seems that his son Alfonso
became his hostage ;^ that the Duke of Lancaster requested Rich-
ard the Second to deliver the prisoner into his hands, in order
1 that the possession of so illustrious a Spaniard might support his
claim to the Spanish crown ;' and that various persons pretended
to be interested in the subjects In 1377 Hauley and Schakel
were committed to the Tower for having secreted the young Count
whilst suits were pending before the Constable and Marshal, and
for refusing to place him in the King's custody until the rights of
the claimants were determined.^ They escaped from that prison,
and took sanctuary at Westminster ; but Sir Alan BoxhuU, the
Constable of the Tower, being indignant at their success, joined
with Lord Latimer and Sir Ralph Ferrers, the partisans of Lan-
caster, in resolving to seize them. With a retinue of fifty armed
men, they entered the Abbey on the 11th August 1378, during
the attendance of the two esquires at high mass ; and first seizing
Schakel, they secured and dragged him out of the chiirch. Hau-
ley resisted the attack with great courage, but was at last slain ;
and this flagrant violation of the laws of sanctuary having roused
the indignation of the Archbishop, he pronounced an anathema
on all concerned, more especially on Boxhull and Ferrers.^ The
afiair excited much attention ; and it seems that Schakel was soon
liberated and restored to favour, as agreements were entered into
with the King for his claims on the Count of Denia, which were
eventually purchased of him for the enormous sum of 3000/. and
\ I an annuity of 100 marks.^
The only other notices of Schakel which have been found are,
that in 1378 he and Hauley petitioned Parliament for the resti-
tution of the ransom of two Flemings, their prisoners, amount-
(
> Thomas of Walsingham, p. 216.
» See Rot. Orig. 50 Edw. III.; Rot. Pari. 1 Ric. II. vol. iii. p. 10 a; and
I Carte'sGasconRolls, ii. 137. * Walslogham, p. 216.
I * Rot. Pari. iii. 10 a, 50 a.
j ^ Walsingham, p. 206. HoUingshed, ed. 1809, vol. ii. p. 720.
^ Foedera, iii. p» iii. p. 108 ; Calend. Rot. Pat 7 Ric. II. p. 108.
Sm RICHARD SCROPE. 435
ing to 1100 marks ;' thai he was in the expedition into Scotland J""" ScmuL
in the autumn of 1385, and was a witness for Sir Richard Scrope
in October 1386 ; that on the 19th October 1392 he obtained a
safe conduct on going into Acquitaine in the King's service,-
and that in March 1393 he received letters of protection in con-
sequence.^
John Schakel, Esquire, aged forty-five, first armed in the
year in which the hatde of Morlaix was fought, deposed, gene-
rally, to the use of the arms by Sir Richard Scrope, his sons, his
cousins, and others of his lineage. He had never heard of any
challenge or interruption being oiFered by Sir Robert Grosvenor,
or by any one in his name, to the use of the said amis by the
Scropes ; but he well remembered, in tiie last expedition in Scot-
land, that Sir Richard Scrope challenged one Sir Robert Gros-
venor, who wrongfully bore the arms of Sir Richard ; in which
arms he had seen branches of the family of Sir Richard Scrope
armed in divers expeditions in the time of the late King, before
Paris, and with the Prince in Gascony, Spain, and Scotland.
JAMES DU PECHAM, EsQtiRK. The name of this per- J"»« "-
son was generally written Feckuam, and he is presumed to have
been the son of Reginald Peckham of Yaldham in Kent, Esquire.*
According to his deposition, he was born about 1346, and served
on various occasions in the army in France and Scotland. In Au-
gust 1372 he was a trustee of Sir Thomas Coven ;'' and by deed
dated at Wrotham, in March 1399, he and the other trustees
demised to Margery, widow of Robert Coven, the lands whereof
they were enfeoffed by the said Thomas Coven,^ which is the last
notice that has been found of the Deponent. On the 4th June
1373 he was appointed a ConunisBioner to arrest the impugners of
the King's right to the temporalities of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, during the vacancy of that See ;*' in December 1375 he was
mentioned as a feoffee in the Will of Sir Roger Digge ;' and was
Sheriff of Kent in the 1st and 12th Ric. II.* By Lora his wife,
daughter and sole heiress of Sir Thomas Morant of Chevening in
I Rot. Pari. iii. SO. * Cute'a Gascon Rolls, i. 178. ' Ibid, i. 179.
• Uasled'g Uisloi; of Keol, folio, vol. ii.p.a37. ' HarleianChaiters, V. 9.
' Ftedera, iii. p' iii. p. 12. ' Testamenia Vetusta, p, BB.
3k2
436
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
James dv
Pbcham, Esq.
Kent, he left issue ; and the son of his descendant Reginald Peck-
ham Esquire, sold Yaldham in 1733.'
James du Pecham, Esquire, aged forty years, armed twenty-
eight years, deposed generally to the exclusive use of the arms
Azure, a bend Or, by the family of Scrope. He had seen Sir
Henry Scrope armed in the said arms with a white label, in the
expedition of the late King before Paris, together with his ban-
ner of the same, as well as Sir Richard in the entire arms. If
any other man, he said, had any right to the arms of Scrope, it
must have been well known, either by hearsay from old persons or
by branches of the said arms, or by collaterals,^ in so long a time.
He had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor until the commence-
ment of this controversy during the King^s expedition in Scotland.
The arms of Feckham were. Ermine, a chief quarterly Or
and Gules.'
Sir John
Clanvowe.
SIR JOHN CLANVOWE. It is remarkable that of so dis-
tinguished a person as this Deponent nothing positive respecting his
pedigree or alliances should be recorded.^ According to the state-
' Hasted's History of Kent, folio, vol. ii. p. 237.
' ** ou par oy dire des veillez hommes, ou par braunchez dez ditz armes ou
par collaterals.''
* Vincent's MS. in the College of Arras, n^ 10, f. 190. These arms are said,
in '' Hasted's History of Kent,'* to have been placed in the window of Barhaxn
Church, in that county, with the inscription, ** Jacobus Peccam."
* It is very probable that the Philip Clanvowe to whom the following inquisi-
tion relates was the Deponent's father: Inquisitio capta apud Webbeleye (in
com. Hereford) die Jovis prox' ante festum Sancti Bamabe Apostoli, anno 13<>.
" Juratores dicunt quod Philippus de Clanvowe et antecessores sui extiterant pre-
positi in feodo de terra de Glandestr* que est de pertinenciis manerii de Redenore,
percipiendo singulis annis septem ulnas panni, predi panni quinque marcaniniy
de manerio predicto, ut de hereditate sua, racione prepositure predicte. £t dicunt
quod predictus Philippus dictas septem ulnas panni percepit et babuit tempore
Margarete de Mortuo Mari de predicta Margareta. Dicunt eciam quod Philippus
ap Howel, avunculus predicti Philippi de Clanvowe, cujus heres ipse est, dictas
septem ulnas panni percepit et habuit tempore Edmundi de Mortuo Mari de
predicto Edmundo, et de Matilda de Mortuo Mari matre predicti Ednaundi
tempore ipsius Matilde. Dicunt eciam quod Howelus ap Meurik, pater predicti
Philippi ap Howel et avus predicti Philippi de Clanvowe, cujus heres ipse est,
percepit et habuit dictas septem ulnas panni tempore Matildse de Mortuo Mari
predicte de predicta Matilda. Dicunt eciam quod Meuricus ap Phelip, pater
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 437
ment in the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, he was born about the Sir
year 1351, and at the age of fifteen he began the career of arms ;
but there is reason to believe that he was older, and had served
longer than is there stated, for in March 1364, at which time
he was a knight, he obtained letters of protection, being then
about to serve in Brittany in the retinue of Walter Huet.' Let-
ters of general attorney were issued to him in 1370, in the names
of John Oldcastle and Philip Holgol,'' when be was in the retinue
of Sir Robert Enoilys in France; and on the 26th January 1374
he was retained to serve the King at sea for half a year, with
forty men-at-arms and forty archers, of whom he and his com-
panion were to be knights, and the remainder esquires,' In April
1376 Clanvowe was one of the mainpernors in Parliament of Lord
Latimer ;* and soon after the accession of Richard the Second
he was retained to serve under the King of Castile, the inden-
tures for which purpose were dated on the 26th January 1378.*
He was constituted one of the executors of Joan Princess of Wales
in August 1385,^ and filled the same office for Guichard d'Angle
Earl of Huntingdon in 1380,' about which time Sir Edward
Berkeley bequeathed him the dominion and monastery of Hike-
ling." In May 1381 he received letters of protection, being about
to serve in Portugal ;* and in the same month the King granted
him an annuity of 50/. per annum."* On the 12th May 1385,
being then a Knight of the King's Chamber, Sir John Clanvow
was appointed to the important office of Deputy, or Viceroy, of
piedicti Howeli, peitepit et habuit dictas septem ulnos panni tempore Willielini de
Breosa de predicto Wiltielmo. El sic predictus Philippus de Clanvowe ct HHle-
cessores sui dictaa leptem ulnaa panni percepenint et habut>runl de omnibus iUiii
qui dictum miuieriuiii de Radenure tenutnint, racione preposlture predicte, ut de
bereditate sua predicia, a tempore quo nou extat memoria," &c. Esch, 13 Edw.
III. second numbera, n" 39. In the 22nd Ric. II. a John Clanvowe held some
knights' fees in Hereroidshire and (he Marches (Esch. 32 Ric. II. n' 34); which
lands were possessed by a person of the same name in the 3rd Hen VI. (Esch.
3 Hen. VI. □" 3a.) In the printed calendar to the Inquisitlones post Mortem, the
name is erroneously spelt ClanHOwe.
' RoL Franc. 38 Edw. III. m. 17. ' Rot. Franc. 44 Edw, III. m. 23.
' Vincent"» " Eiitua," in the Coll^ of Arms, f. 15. ' Rot. Pari, iii. 327.
' \'incent'B Enitus, f. 23. ' Nichols's Royal Willi, p. 80.
' Testamenta \'etii3lft, p. 109. ' Testamenta Vetusia.
' Carle's Gascon Rolb, ii. 1 36. "■ Rot. Pat 9 Ric, II. p, 1, m. 27 and 37.
438 DEPonxTS a fatoch of
Sfm J^m North and South Wales;' aid Mopan to hsve
EngKA annj in those pcarinoes, as a John SUey
of protectioo m oooseqiieaoe of being in his ^ u—ilii ■-''** Ib the
«me year the town of HaTexIbrd, with JL its rojaltae% was
granted to him, in Uea of the annuity of SOL iriocfa was bestowed
on him in 1381 ;' and in a reooid of nearly the aanae date he is
styled ^ Baceelarins Regis,** a title nearly synoajnaKNis with the
King's Knight.
On the inrasion of Scotland by the King in perwMi in the
autumn of 1385, Sir John QauTowe was retained to aerre him fiir
forty days ;^ and shortly afterwards he was joined in a oommiaaao
with the Ardibisbop of Y<irk and WilBam de NevHl, to surrey
aU castles and other fiortresses in the marches of Sootland, to
superintend the garrisoning and Tictualling of the same, mwtA to
review the troops under the captains of the said marche&.^ In
January 1386 Clanvowe was appointed a Commiasianer to trau for
peace with France :^ on the 12th of April fdlowing he was a
Commissioner to conclude a treaty with the King of PcMtugal ;*
and in October in the same year was examined as a witness £or
Sir Richard Scrope. His deposition is diiefly remarkable for the
petulance which be displayed at being interrogated. In January
1388 the prisage of all wines in Haverford was granted to him z9
in October following he was employed on a mission to treat for a
truce with France ;^ and again in May 1389»" when he and his
colleagues remained more than a month at Calais or Boulogne,
waiting the arrival of the Scottish ambassadors ;^ but in August
ensuing the truce was concluded.^ On the 5th November in the
same year he was ordered, with the Bishop of Durham, and many
of his former colleagues, to negociate a truce with Flanders,^^
which is the last notice that has been discovered of him ; and as
his name does not occur in a similar commission in April 1390, in
which most of those who were employed on the previous mission
» Rot. Pat. 8 Ric. II. p. 2. m. 5. » Ibid. 8 Ric. 11. p. 2. m. 9.
* Ibid. 9 Ric. II. p. I, m. 27 and 37. * Ibid. 9 Ric. II. m. 40.
* Vincent's Exitus, p. 33. • Rot Scot. 9 Ric. II. m.8.
' Foedera, iii. p' iii. p. 191. ■ Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 200.
» Rot. Pat. 11 Ric. II. p. 1. m. 3. " Fcedera, iii. p« iv. p. 34, 35.
" Ibid. iii. p« iv. p. 44. " Froissart par Buchon^ xii. p. 4.
** Foedera, iii. p* iy. p. 44. ** Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 49.
SIB RICHARD SCEOPE. 439
to Flanders were included, it may be presumed that he died before Sm Jou
that time.' An intimate connection eeems to have existed between
Sir Lewis Clifford,' Sir William Nevill, and Sir John Clanvow, as
their names more than once cjccur as executors to the same jier-
sons, and they appear to have been together in the service of the
Princess of Wales. From this fact it may perhaps be inferred
that Clanvon- was, like them, a favourer of the doctrines of the
Lollards ; in which case he would add to his other claims to atten-
tion, the merit of being one of those distinguished persons who
were first sensible of tlie abuses of the Church of Rome, and
cleared the way for, even if they did not lay, the foundations of
the reformed religion.
Sir John Clanvowe, aged thirty-five, armed twenty years and
upwards, deposed that the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged to
Sir Richard Scrope; being asked how he knew, replied, that if
one were to put all the interrogatories in the world to him, he
would answer, once for all, and say, certainly, that wherever he
was armed in the King's wars he never saw any man bear the said
arms, nor be armed in tliem, nor use them, but those of the name
of Scrope ; and before this debate he had heard nothing of the
Grosvenors or their ancestry.
The only notice which has been found of the arms of Clan-
vowe, states that they were, Paly of six Or and Azure, on a fess
Gules three mullets Argent pierced of tlie field.'
SIR THOMAS PEYTEVYN. Of this veteran, who was SmTnc
one of the heroes of Cressy, and of many other of Edward the
Third's victories, scarcely any thing is known besides what he
states in his deposition, which is an honourable memento of his
services. It appears that he was born about the year 1315, and
first served at the battle of Berwick in 1333, which was fifty-
three, instead of fifty-five years before he was examined on behalf
' I» a MS. or the celebraied Vincenl, Wiodaor HeraJd temp. Car. I. is the fol-
lowinfc 6ntr7 : "Johannes Clanvone Miles, defunctus. Pat.lSKic. II. m. 5. p.!;"
but there appear» to be an error in the reference to ihe membrane.
' A Sir Thomas Clanvow, probably the Deponent's brother, was one of Sir
Lewis Clifiord's executors.
' WiUement's Heraldic Notices of Canterbury Cathedra], p. 106, where it is said
that those arms occur near lo the arms of Sir Lewis Clitford in the cloisters.
440 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Thomas of Sir Richard Scrope, at which time, thoueh called sixty and
Peytxttm. * ^ ^
upwards, he must have been at least seventy years of age^ Of
his family, alliances, or descendants, nothing has been ascer-
tained, but it is probable that he was related to persons of his
name who, in the reign of Edward the Second held lands in Lin-
colnshire,^ and in that of Edward the Third in Somersetshire.^
In March 1356 Peytevyn received letters of protection, bein^ then
about to serve in the retinue of the Prince of Wales ;^ again on
going into France in August 1369 ; again in May 1360 ; and on
going to (}ascony in May 1365 ;* and in 1384 or 1385 he obtained
a pardon of all suits or actions then pending against him.^
Sir Thomas Peytevyn, aged sixty and upwards, armed first at
the battle of Berwick, which was fifty-five years before, deposed
that the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged to Sir Richard Scrope ;
and he never heard otherwise, for he saw the brother of Sir Henry
Scrope armed at the battle of Berwick, at the siege of Calais, and
at the battle of Cressy in company of the Prince in Guyenne ;
and he was always so armed, with a label Argent ; and if any
other man in the company of the Prince had had any pretension
to the said arms, he would have found the said Sir William Scrope
publicly using the same in the Princess company, who would soon
have spoken for the said arms.^ And afterwards the said Sir Wil-
liam was with the Prince in Spain, and there died in the Vale of
Zorie. The Deponent then asserted, in the language of the former
witnesses, and on the authority of many nobles, valiant knights,
and esquires, whom he knew in his youth, the antiquity of the
family of Sir Richard Scrope, and that until this controversy
1 Roll of Arms temp. £dw. II.8vo. 1828. In the 17th £dw. II. (£sch. n9 13),
a John de Peytevyn was the husband of Alice, aunt of Richard de Shopton, son of
Richard de Shopton of Gruelsthorp, co. York.
' In 20 Edw. III. Peter de Peytevine died seised of lands in Stony Eston in
Somersetshire, leaving Walter de Peytevyn (son of his eldest son Bartholomew,
who died in 10 £dw. III.) his grandson and heir, then aged nine years. (Esch.
20 Edw. III. n^ 12.) In the 22nd Ric. II. a Thomas Peytevyne held a fee in
Twyford and Bumeldon in the Marches of Wales, which was possessed by a John
Peytevyne in the 3rd Hen. VI. (Esch. 22 Ric. II. n» 34, and Esch. 3 Hen. VI.
no 32.) » Foedera, iii. p*i. 121.
♦ Ibid. N. E. vol. iii. pp. 443, 482, 763. » Rot. Pat. 8 Ric. II. m. 3, p. 2.
< << que eust tantost parlez pour lez ditz armez.''
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 441
commenced in Scotland, he had never heard mention of Sir Robert Sm
Grosvenor or of his lineage.
The arms of Sir Thomas Peytevyn were. Ermine, three chev-
ronels Gules.'
RICHARD DE BEAULIEU, Esquibb. Only one notice Rici
has been found of this person besides the account of his long and
various services in his deposition. In the 4th Ric II. an inquisi-
tion was taken to ascertain whether Richard de Beaulieu might
not cultivate and hold the forest of Ingle wood in the county of
Cumberland,* a fact which tends to connect him with the North of
England, and which it< corroborated by the local knowledge he
evinced respecting the Priory of Lanercost and the Church of
Wetherhale.
Richard de Beaulieu, Esquire, aged fifty-five, armed thirty-
seven years, saw Sir Henry Scrope and his sons armed Azure, a
bend Or, with a white label, and the sons with differences, the
said Sir Henry being with his banner during all his time in the
kingdom of France, and in Scotland. He often saw also Sir
Henry and Sir Richard armed in the King's expeditions in France,
before Paris, they being then in the company of the Earl of
Richmond ; and saw Sir Richard so armed, with his banner, at
the burning of Dumfries, and afterwards in the expedition of the
Lord of Lancaster in Scotland, and at another time in the expe-
dition of the King in Scotland, during all which time he used
those arms without challenge or interruption. He had heard from
his ancestors that the Scropes had always borne the said arms, as
plainly appeared in the Church of Wetherhale, where one of the
name of Scrope was interred in those arms, and also, as was evi-
dent, in the Priory of Lanercost, on glass in which church were the
same arms. Being asked whether those arms were placed in the
said church by Sir Richard Scrope or by Sir Robert Grosvenor, he
said that he knew well that they were there placed as the arms of
■ Roll of Arms temp. E<jw. II. 3to. 182B, in which that coat i% altributtKl to
Sir Roger Peytevyn of Lincolnshire.
' Each, 4 Ric. II. a" 79. Id the 12th Hen. VI. Wilham Beaulieu of Cum-
berlsuid. Esquire, died, leaving his three daughlera, Margaret the wife of Robert
SkeltOQ, Mary the wife of Thomas Denton, and Isabella iheo unmarried, his heirs,
each of whom was then of full age. Esch. ii Hen. VI. a" 1.
VOL. II. 3 L
442 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Richard de the Scropes, for the prior and canons of the said priory held the
said Sir Richard and his ancestors to be the founders of their
priory, and therefore the arms of the Scropes were placed in the
windows of their church, and were embroidered on vestments as
founders; and the said arms had been on glass there since the
building of their priory, which was beyond the memory of man.
He added, that it was commonly reputed in the North Country
that the Scropes were descended from nobles and great gentlemen,
and had been so armed ever since the Conquest. He had never
heard of Sir Robert Grosvenot*, or of any of his ancestors, until
this controversy.
Sir William SIR WILLIAM NEVILLE. The age, and some other
circumstances respecting this individual, tend to identify him as
a younger son of Ralph second Lord Neville of Raby, by Alice,
the daughter of Hugh Lord Audley, who is noticed by Dugdale ;^
but, as has been observed in the memoir of his contemporary Sir
William Neville of Pickhall,^ it is difficult to state to which person
of this name the facts that are recorded in the latter part of the
reign of Edward the Third, and during that of Richard the Se-
cond, apply. The Deponent was bom about the year 1350, and
first served in the expedition into Oascony under the Prince of
Wales in 1362, from which time he appears to have rapidly ac-
quired military fame, though it is very unlikely, from his age,
that he was, as Dugdale says. Admiral of the Fleet in 1374.
He obtained licence to travel in 1366, was in the retinue of the
Earl of Salisbury in Brittany in 1372, was a Knight of the King^s
Chamber in the 8th Ric. II., and in the 10th Ric. II. was one of
the chief of the sect of the Lollards, after which time Dugdale
could ^^say no more of him/^^ In 1376 he was one of the main-
pernors in Parliament for Lord Latimer,^ and in 1380 was exe-
cutor of the Will of the Earl of Huntingdon. Neville is very
frequently mentioned by Froissart, who sometimes describes him
as *' the brother of Lord Neville.^ He served in Picardy imder Sir
' Baronage, L 295. In the Harleian MS. 3882, f. 10, Sir William Neville is
called the fourth son. John Lord Neville, the elder brother of the Deponent,
was about nine years older than himself, ' Vide antea, p. 359.
* Baronage, i. 295. * Rot. Pari. iii. 327.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 443
Robert Knollya in 1370,' in which year he and some other knights Sia Wi
were made prisoners and taken to Mans.* In 1373 the Earl of
Salisbury, Sir Philip Courtenay, and Sir William Neville, were
employed with a fleet of forty ships, and two thousand men-at-
arms ; and having proceeded to Brittany, they entered St. Maloes,
in which harbour they burnt seven large Spanish vessels.' In*
October 1383 he was a Commissioner to treat with the King of
France,* and in 1385 was one of the executors of Joan Princess of
Wales.' Neville is said to have been a member of the King's
Council in 1386, and to have adhered to Richard in his dis-
putes with his uncles," On the 31st of August in thai year his
brother, John Lord Neville, bequeathed him a green bed pow-
dered with falcons, and twelve silver dishes, and to the Lady
Elizabeth his wife, a cup of silver, gill.' The last notice which
has been found respecting him is, that he was a witness for Sir
Ricliard Scrope in October following : it has not been ascertained
whom he married, or whether he left issue.
Sir William Neville, aged thirty-six, armed since the time
when the Prince went last beyond sea to take possession of Gas-
cony, deposed, generally, to the use of the arms Azure, a bend
Or, by the Scropes, he having seen the said arms borne by them
in divers expeditions, and to the antiquity of their family. He
had never heard of the name of Grosvenor until the commence-
ment of this controversy in Scotland.
The arms of Sir William Neville were. Gules, a saltire Argent;
a fleur de lis for difference.^
SIR HENRY FERRERS. There can be little doubt that S'n Hi
this Deponent was the person whom Froissart calls " Messire
Henry de Ferrieres le batard ;"" and as he was bom about 1340,
he was probably a natural son of Henry Lord Ferrers of Groby,
' Froissart par Buchon, v. 194. 208. 325. 227.
' Froissan par Buchoo, p. 228. • Ibid. vi. 40, 41. 46. 195. 205.
* Fcedera, iii. p' iii. p. 160. ■ » Nichols's RoyalWilU, p. 80.
' Froissart par Buchon, x. 170, \i. 16.
' Hulchinaon's History of Durham, iii. 265.
' Roll of Arms in ihe possession of the lUv. John Newling,
' Froissart par Buchon, vii. 316.
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1M DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Hevuy ^{jq died in 1343. It appears from his deposition that he served
in the wars of the latter part of the reign of Edward the Third,
as well in France and Brittany, as against the infidels in Lithu-
ania. In September 1377 he obtained letters of protection, being
then going abroad in the King'^s service, in the retinue of Sir
Robert Kndlys,^ and again in March 1378.' Sir Henry Ferrers
was in the army with which the Elarl of Buckingham landed at
Calais in the summer of 1380, and marched into Artois, Ver-
mandois, and Champagne.' In April 1383 he served in the cru-
sade of the Bishop of Norwich against the religious sect styled
Clementines, the result of which has been noticed in the me-
moir of Sir Thomas Try vet,^ with whom he was involved in the
charge made by the Commons in Parliament, of having been
bribed by the French to agree to a treaty injurious to England,
and of surrendering Bourburgh and other fortresses.^ He con-
fessed having received part of 2000 gold franks, and another par-
cel of 1000 franks; and he and the other accused were sentenced
by Parliament to pay to the KLing the money they had received,
and to be imprisoned at his pleasure.^ On the 6th March 1384
a writ was issued to the Sheriff of London to levy the said sum on
the lands and chattels of Ferrers, to seize his person, and produce
him before the King and Council during the quindesme of £aster
next following^ He obtained his release before August 1385, as
it seems that he was then in the expedition in Scotland ; and in
October 1386 he was a witness for Sir Richard Scrope. From
the last notice which has been found of him, it appears that he
joined the party of the Duke of Ireland and the Earl of Suffolk,
for in the petition of the Commons in the Parliament at West-
minster in February 1388, his name is included among those
who it was proposed should be excepted from the general am-
nesty, ^^ together,^ it is added, ^^ with all those who are now
^ beyond the seas with the traitors, as well as all others who
" might go to them.**®
Of the descendants, or arms of Sir Henry Ferrers, nothing
has been discovered.
> Carte's Gascon Rolls, vol. ii. p. 121. ' Rot. Franc. 1 Ric. II. p. 11. m. 19.
' Froissart par Buchon, vii. 316. * Vide page 417 antea.
* Rot. Pari. iii. 156. • Ibid. ui. 156. 158.
' Fcedera, iii. p* iii. p. 165. • Rot. Pari. iii. 249.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 4-15
Sir Henry de Ferrers, aged forty-six, armed thirty years, Sm He>
deposed that he never heard of any one who had so good right to
the arms Azure, a bend Or, as Sir Richard Scrope, and the other
brandies of hts family. He said that he saw Sir Geoffrey Scrope,
the son of Sir Henry, so armed in Brittany; also the said Sir
Geoffrey so armed in Prussia, and afterwards in Lithuania, before
a castle called Piskre, and that he there died, and from thence his
body was brought back into Prussia and interred, in the same
arms, in the cathedral of Konigsberg, where they were placed on a
tablet, as a memorial, before the altar. The Deponent saw Sir
Henry Scrope before Paris, with his banner, and his body so armed
with a white label, and Sir Richard Scrope with the arms entire.
The said Sir Geoffrey Scrope was then armed in the company
of the late Lord of Lancaster before Paris, and before the time
that he went into Prussia. The Scropes had, he said, always pos-
sessed these arms in high knightly honour, and bore them in royal
wars and expeditions of the King, and they were always deemed
to be their arms. The Deponent added his testimony, on the
authority of his ancestors, to the antiquity of the family of Scrope,
which, he said, came into England at the Conquest, and their
arms at the same time. He had never heard of any challenge or
interruption being offered in the use of these arms by Sir Robert
Grosvenor, or by any one in his name : he had never heard of
him, or of his ancestors, until this expedition in Scotland.
SIR JOHN BOURCHIER, K.G. second LORD BOUR- I'"-''""
CHIER, was the son of Robert first Baron Bourchier,' by Mar- KG.
garet, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Prayers of Prayers in
Essex,'^ and succeeded his father in 1349, at which time he was
twenty years of age,' so that he must have been fifty-seven, instead
of fifty, when examined on behalf of Sir Richard Scrope, He
first served in the field at the siege of Calais in 134i6, and besides
the expeditions mentioned in his deposition, was, in 1359, in
Gascony;' in Brittany in 136+;* in Picardy in 1370;* and in the
' Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 137 ; Roi Fin. 23 Edw. Ill- p. 2, m. S ; Esch. 23
Edw. in. n° 92.
* Vincent's Essex, f, 32 ; and Vincent's MS, in the College of Amu, n' 20,
f. 214. ' Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 127.
' Kroissart par Buchon, iv, 2)9, 263. ' Ibid. v. 194.
M6 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
wars of France in 1369, 1376, and 137*.' Lord Bourchier B«^ed
in the fleet under the command of Sir John Arundel, which sailed
from Southampton for Brittany in December 1379, and narrovly
escaped the fate of that person, who, with Sir Thomas Banastre,
K.O. and some other etnioent individuals, was lost in a violent
storm.* In the following year he was in the army with which the
Earl of Buckingham landed at Calais and advanced into France ;*
and he then possessed so high a reputation, that on the acqni.
eition of Flanders by Edward the Third, Bourchier was appointed
Vicegerent of those territories and Governor of Gant, by pat«ol,
dated 8th November ISS*;* and Froissart* particularly notices his
conduct whilst holding that important office. It may be infemd
from his deposition, and from his being summoned to serve against
the Scots in June 1385,^ that he was in the army which invaded
Scotland in the autumn of that year, though, if Froissart be
correct, he had not then returned from Flanders. In the 9di
Ric. II. 1385-6, according to Dugdale, he was ret^ned by the
King to serve in fortifying Calais, and was again in France in
1389.' Though Lord Bourchier succeeded his father in 1340^
he was not summoned to Parliament until the 16th July» 5 Bac
II. 1381, from which time he was regularly summoned until
' Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 127. * FroU»art pat Buchon, vii. 3B0.
> Ibid. rii. 316. On the 24lh June 4 Ric. 11. 1380, offerings were orderad to
be made by Joho of Gant Duke of Lancaster, for the obits of Sir TbomM Ih-
naatre. Sir John Arundell, and other knights, nho were drowned i
the preceding December. Registrum Johabnis Ducis LoDcastric
* Froissut par Buchon, ix. 41 ; and Fisdeia, iii. p' iii, p. 174.
' Froissart par BuchoD, ix. 41.53.63. 103. 163. 165. 171. 174.177. 179. tM.
' Foedera, iii. p' iii. p. 184.
T Baronage,ii.128. It is not probable that the following feet relates to the De-
ponent, because his imprisoDmeot in Brittany is not noticed either by Froissart or
Dugdale. In the 11th Ric. 11.1388, Maud, the wife of Sir John Bourchier, pre.
sented a petition to the King and Council, staling that her husband had long bees a
prisoner in Brittany; that he had been ransomed for 13,000 franks; of which sub
4000 were to have been paid at the preceding Michaelmai at Boulogne, bm hi '
consequence of the "Dame de Roys sa maitresse," who married Sir Roger Belfon.
not haTing performed certain covenants into which she bad entered with Sir John
Bourchier, he was unable to obtain his deliverance ; she dterefcre prayed that her
husband might be released by sud) means as the King might think proper ; an^
was answered, that his Majesty would do what might seem best
Rot Pari. iii. 356.
SIR RICHARD SCROFE. 447
the 30th September 1 Hen. IV. 1399.* The only occasion on Sir John
which he is recorded to have been present in Parliament, was k.g.
in 1397, when he was one of the peers who swore to observe the
statutes which were then enacted ;^ but it is nearly certain that
he was attending Parliament in October I3869 when he was a
witness for Sir Richard Scrope. Upon the death of Sir Robert
de Namur in August 1392, the services of Lord Bourchier were
rewarded with the Order of the Garter, and he filled the eighth
stall on the Princess side in the chapel of Windsor, where the
plate of his arms still remains. In consideration of his advanced
age in the 1st Hen. IV. he being then about seventy, he obtained
the Kings's dispensation from attending Parliaments or Councils :'
he did not, however, long benefit by this exemption, as he died
on the 21st May 1400,^ and was buried at Halsted. By Maud,
daughter of Sir William Coggeshall,^ he left Sir Bartholomew
Bourchier his only son, who was then thirty-six years old :^ he
became the third Baron, and died in May 1409* Sir Hugh
Stafibrd, K.G. who married Elizabeth, only child of the last Baron,
became jure uxoris Baron Bourchier: he died «without issue, and
Sir Lewis Robsart, K.G. the second husband of Lady Bourchier,
enjoyed the title until his demise in 1431. Elizabeth Baroness
Bourchier died without issue on the 1st July 1433, when the
descendants of the Deponent failed, and the dignity devolved on
Henry Bourchier Earl of Ewe, grandson of William, second son
of Robert first Lord Bourchier.*
Sir John Bourchier, aged fifty, first armed at the siege of
Calais, deposed that he saw Sir Richard Scrope armed in the arms
Azure, a bend Or, when King Edward was before Paris ; and there
was also Sir Henry Scrope armed in those arms with a white label,
and Sir Geofirey Scrope, son of Sir Henry, armed in the same
arms with a label Ermine ; and the said Sir Henry and Sir Rich-
ard, and their sons, were armed in many other places, which he
did not then recollect ; and the said Sir Richard and his cousins,
and their branches, were in possession of the said arms from time
immemorial, as he had seen during his time, and as he had heard
from old knights and esquires. He bad n^ver heard of Sir Robert
' Rot. Glaus, de iisdem annis. ' Rot Pari. iii. 356.
' Dugdale's Baronage» ii. 128. * Esch. 1 Hen. IV. n? 9.
* Vincent's MS. n** 20, f. 214.
Sir John
BOURCHIBR,
K.G.
448
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Orosvenor, or of any of his ancestors, until the commencement of
this controversy in Scotland in the Kings's last expedition.
The arms of John Lord Bourcliier were, Argent, a cross
engrailed Gules, between four water-bougets Sable. His crest was
a man^s head, in profile, looking towards the sinister, ducally
crowned, and wearing a cap Gules, tasselled Or.^
SiE Richard giR RICHARD LE ZOUCHE. Of the many eminent
LI Z0UCH£. ^ ^ ■'
warriors who gave their testimony in the Scrope and Grosvenor
controversy, few could boast of longer or more distinguished
services than this soldier of upwards of half a century. He was a
younger son of Eudo le Zouche, who died ip the 19th Edw. II.
vit& patris, son and heir apparent of WiUiam first Lord Zouche of
Haringworth. By Joan, the daughter and heiress of William
Inge, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the said Eudo le Zouche
had, besides this Richard, an elder son, William, who succeeded
his grandfather in the barony in March 1352, at which time he
was upwards of thirty years old.*
Sir Richard le Zouche was born about 1319, and entered on
the career of arms in his fifteenth year, in 1334 or 1335. Of his
services, all which is known is derived from his deposition ; and it
appears that he was in most of the military expeditions of the
reign of Edward the Third, and shared the laurels of Cressy, as
well as of many other battles, sieges, and campaigns. From his
advanced age, it is probable that he retired from active life
soon after he was examined for Sir Richard Scrope in October
1386, as no subsequent notice has been found of him until the
17th April 1397, on which day he made his Will at Norwich ;
in which instrument he ordered his body to be buried in the
Abbey of St. Peter of Dunstaple ; mentioned his daughter Alice ;
and appointed his servants, John Berowby and Edmund Colville,
his executors. Sir Richard le Zouche died on the 23rd April
1397,' and his Will was proved in the Registry of the Bishop of
Norwich on the 25th of the same month. By an inquisition
which was taken on the 12th May following, it appears that his
brother William, second Lord Zouche, had granted him the
1 Garter plate od his stall at Windsor, which is inscribed,— <<Le Syre de
Bourgcher John." * Each. 26 Edw. III. n© 50.
* Esch. 20 Ric. II. n® 56.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
449
manor of Dockynge in Norfolk for life, wilh reversion to the heirs '
of the grantee, and that the said heir was Sir Richard's grand-
nephew, William fourth Lord Zouche, who was then twenty-four
years old.' It has not been ascertained whom the Deponent mar-
ried, nor are any particulars known of his descendants.
Sir Richard le Zouche, aged sixty-seven, armed when he was
fifteen years old, deposed that in all places where he had served,
and where a knowledge of arms could be gained, the arms Azure,
a bend Or, had always been, and were reputed to be, the arms of
Scrope, He had lieard his grandfather, the Lord le Zouche, say,
that the arms Azure, a bend Or, were the arms of Scrope, and their
lawful arms, and that they were come of old ancestry and ancient
gentry. He said that he had seen them so armed in Scotland,
France, Brittany, and Gascony, and Sir Henry Scrope with his
banner with the Earl of Northampton at the battle of the Spaniards
on the sea, at the battle of Cressy, at the siege of Calais, and when
the noble King Edward the Third made his expedition before
Paris, where Sir Richard Scrape was armed in the said arms
entire, in company of the Earl of Richmond, then Duke of Lan-
caster ; and there was Sir Henry Scrope with his banner, with the
same arms and a white label, and others of their lineage, armed in
the said arms with ditferences, the which arms the said Scropes
had used during all his time, honestly and justly as men-of-
arms, without contradiction : being asked who was the first of the
ancestors of the said Sir Richard, he replied, certainly he had heard
from his grandfather that they were descended from ancient an-
cestry, for before that his (the Deponent's) father was born, the
■ Each. 20 fiic. II. □<■ 56. Inquisilio capta apud Walsynghara in com. Norf.
la» die Mali anno Btc. xx", " Juratorea dicuot quod Ricardus la Zouche, Chi-
valer, defunctus, uon lenuiL aJiqua terras be. sel tenuit de domino Rege mauerium
de Dockynge, vocalum Zouchea maner, cum pertineociis per servicium SRXte partis
tinius feodi mililis ad lenoinum vile sue de dono Willielmi lilii Eudouis la
Zouche, reversione iode spectante ad prediclura Willielmum la Zouclie et heredes
SU03, &c. El dicunt quod prediclua Ricardus la Zouche obiil die Lune in festo
Sancti Georgii ultime prelerilo. El lAcunl quod Willielmus la Zouche, Miles,
filiua Willielmi la Zouche, filii predicti Willielmi la Zouche, lilii Eudonis la
Zouche, eat herea ejus propinquiot, el eat filius el heres Willielmi la Zouche, filii
el heredia Willielmi la Zouche, filii Eudonb la Zouche qui manerium predictum
sic dedit prediclo Ricardo, et sic ptedicta reversio ad prediclum Willielmum per-
tinel et de jure pertinere debet, el est elalia xxiiti auuorum el amplius."
VOL. II. 3 H
4S0 VEFOsEsm IS fatoch of
^iftlUtflus» Md «VM wcse caDcd dioK of Soope ; and he repealed tfaflii
tnodtatheT had Uild htai tfarr Hi^f^ fran iK'Wf* awl
and froi dd aneotrj. The Pfponft had sever heard of
Robert GfOfireoor, or fak anccaton^ befiire tfab dispute.
The am» of Sir Richard le Zooche were those of Zonrhe of
Harjmgworth, Gules beranfeej profaablj with a diffaenoe.
hm% ijMv SIR JOHN LO\^L, FDTH BARON LOVEL or Ti
MtMMm^ waeeeeded his brother of the same naatie in that digmtr in
July 1361, at which time he was twenty-one years of age,* and
was therefiore fiirty-fiTe when examined on the part of Sir Rich-
ard Scrope in October 1386. He b^an his military hfe about
13S8, and in 1369 was in the wars of Fnmce in the retinue of
lionel Duke <^ Clarence,' when he obtained letters <^ protectiao ;^
and again in 1371.' In 1374 he was in the army in France
in the retinue <^ Edmund Eail <^ Mardi,' whidi noUeman be-
queathed him, by bis Will, dated on the 1st Hay 1380, a cup with
aooverc^blue stone, as a memcvial of his friendship. On the28tfa
December 1375 Sir John hord. was summoned to Parliament,^ and
he continued to be r^ularly summoned until his decease. He
was one of the mainpernors in Pariiament for Lord Latimer in
1376,^ and is recorded to have been present in that assembly in
1385 ; in 1389 as a trier of petitions, and a mainpernor of John de
Aske ; again in 1397, 1399, 1401, 1402, 1404, 1405 ; in 1406,
when the crown was settled on Henry the Fourth and his heirs ;
and in 1407.^ In 1376 Lord Lovel was appointed Governor of
the Castle of Banelyngbam in France :® he was employed in the
King^s service in Ireland in 1380,® and on the 8th March in that
year he was one of the pledges of Thomas Catreton, who had been
appealed of treason by Sir John Annesley.' On the 9th May
1384 he was on a committee to confer with the Commons ;^^ and
when Richard the Second invaded Scotland in August 1385 Lord
' ** det nobles & gentik geDerousez homes & de veille anncestrie.**
' £Kh. 3d Edw. III. n* 109.
' Dugdale't Baronage, i. 559. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 98.
* Rot. Clans, eod. ann. * Rot Pari. ii. 326.
^ Rot. Pari. iii. 205—207. 258. 261. 278. 285. 300. 348. 356. 427. 486. 523.
645. 567. 582. 609. ' Dngdale's Baronage, i. 559.
' Fadera, iii. p< iiL p. 96. ^ Rot. P^. iii. 167.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
451
Lovel served in the " King's battle," in (rhich, with Lord Botreaux J
and Lord St. Maur, he commanded one hundred men-at-anns and
two hundred archers.' During the dissensions between Richard
the Second and his peers Love! joined the latter, and was sent
by them, with the Archbishop of York, to the King, to demand
that the Duke of Ireland, and his other favourites, should be
placed in their hands.^ It appears, however, from Knighton, that
he did not long adhere to his party, as he was one of those whom
the peers soon afterwards expelled from the King's presence ;* and
in 1394^ he accompanied Richard to Ireland, in which kingdom
he was again employed in 1398.^ Lord Lovel was one of the peers
who subscribed the letter to the Pontiff in May 1390, complaining
of the excesses of the Court of Rome ;* and on the 7th July 1393
was a Commissioner in a cause of appcEtl before the Marshal,
between Henry Bishop of Norwich and William Baron of Hilton.*
In February 1404, at the request of the Commons, he was no-
minated one of the King's Council ;* and in May 1406 ho was
re-appointed to that situation.^ On the 25th of the same month
he attended in Parliament with his counsel, in a suit respecting
the manor of Hynton in Northamptonshire, which was left to arbi-
tration,' but the affair was not settled until after his death.°
From the active part which Lord Lovel took in Parliamentary
proceedings during the reign of Henry the Fourth, it may be
inferred that his abilities were of a superior order; and in
1405 the King manifested his sense of his merits and services
by selecting him to fill the stall in the Order of the Garter which
became vacant by the death of Sir Peter Courteoay in February
in that year. Lovel was then about sixty-five, and did not enjoy
the distinction quite four years: on the 26th July 1408, being
then at Wardour Castle in "Wiltshire, he made his Will, in
which he styled himself " Lord Lovel and Holand i" he ordered
his body to be buried at Brackley in Northamptonshire, and
appointed his wife Maud, his eldest son. Sir John Lovel, and
Sir Humphrey Stafford, his executors, and died before the 12th
September following, on which day his Will was proved." By
Arcbieologia, vol. xnii.
' Dugdale's Baronage, i.559.
Fttdera, iii. p' iv. p. 59.
' Ibid. iii. p' iv. p. 88. ' Rol. Pari, i
Hot Pari. iii. 372.
' Ibid. iii. 573. * Ibid. iiL 033, 6U.
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4f52 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
John Lord the said Maud/ who was the granddaughter and heiress of Robert
Lord Holand, whom he married about 1373,' and became, in her
right, Baron Holand, he had issue John, his son and heir, sixth
Lord Lovel and Holand,' the grandfather of Francis Liord Liovel,
}• Holand, Deincourt and Ghrey of Rotherfield, and Viscount Liovel,
whose honours were forfeited by attainder in the 1st Hen. VII.
The present representatives of the Deponent are, Miles Stapleton
of Carlton, Esq. and the Earl of Abingdon.
Sir John Lovell, aged forty, armed twenty-eight years, deposed
tliat he had never heard of any person being in possession of the
arms Azure, a bend Or, excepting those of the name of Scrope,
some with difference, and one without difference, and had heard
from old knights and esquires that those arms had always belong-
ed to them. He had seen Sir Richard Scrope, and branches of his
family, armed in them in France and in Scotland, who had always
used them as persons of arms,^ and he never heard of any other
possessor of them until this controversy commenced in Scotland.
The Deponent could not say who was the first of Sir Richard^s
family, he himself not being of such age as to be able to speak of
him, and having never heard the name of such ancestor. He had
never heard of any interruption on the part of Sir Robert Oros-
venor, or his family, to the use of the arms by the Scropes, and
never heard of the right of the said Sir Robert until the last
expedition in Scotland.
The arms of John Lord Lovel were, Nebuly of six Or and
Gules.^
Richard de RICHARD DE HAMPTONE. Two persons of this name
were living in the reign of Richard the Second ; but it is impos-
sible to identify the Deponent with either of them. It is probable
that he was the Richard de Hamptone, who, according to one in*
quisition, died at Storeton in Worcestershire, on Monday next after
the feast of St.' Andrew the Apostle, 7th December 1388 ; but
according to another inquisition, his decease took place on Tues-
* Maud Lady Lovel and Holand suiriyed until the 1st Hen. VI. ; Esch.
1 Hen. VI. n*» 51. * Dugdale's Baronage, i. 559.
* Esch. 9 Hen. IV, n^ 29. * " come gentz d'armez."
* Roll of Arms temp. Edw. III. 8to. 1829; and Vincent's MS. in the CoU
lege of Arms marked B 2.
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SIR RICHARD SCBOPE. 453
day, the 24th November in that year. He was seised of the ■
manoDi of Kynelare and Stourton in Stafiordshire, and had the
custody of the forest of Kynefare. These manors he held for
term of his life by gift of William Pakynton, Sir Simon Burley,
Sir John Clanvow, and others, with remainder to John de Hamp
tone his son, and the heirs male of the body of the said John ;
remainder over to the right heir of the said Richard : he also held
the manor of Walton in Derbyshire for life, under a grant from
the King in the 8th Ric. II.' His heir was his niece Joan, the
wife of William de Bisshebury, and daughter of his brother John
de Hamptone, who was then upwards of forty years of age.'
The other Richard de Hamptone was, it is said, a knight
and Lord of Nether Cagworth in Somersetshire. By Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir John Bitton, he left a son, John Hamptone, who
possessed that lordship in the 16th Ric, II. and whose arms were,
a bend between six fleurs de lis : his son Philip Hamptone married
Alice the daughter and heiress of Walter Catercote of Somer-
setshire, which Alice was twenty-five years of age in the 6th
Hen. IV.=
The Deponent was born about 1326, and served in most of the
wars of the reign of Edward the Third ; but it would seem that
he attained no higher station than that of an esquire, by which
designation he received letters of protection on going abroad in
the retinue of Sir John Cheyney in 1378.'
Richard de Hamptone, aged sixty and upwards, armed forty-
three years and upwards, deposed that he had heard that Sir
Richard Scrope's father was a justice, and used the arms Azure, a
bend Or, in his halls and chambers, and on his silver vessels, and
that his uncle used them with differences in presence of the King
and Ms great lords, and in great battles in France and Scotland,
during all the time that he the Deponent had been armed, and he
never saw any other persons use those arms. He had seen them in
llie field on banners, and in churches on windows, and they were
always called the arms of Scrope. He saw Sir Richard Scrope
armed in these arms at the battle of Spain, and in Scotland in the
■ Esch. 12aic.U. u°27. In the 1 Edw. lU. a Richard de Hampton was
Collector of the Subsidy in Staffordshire. Rot. Pari. ii. 42a.
' Pedigree in the Towneley MSS. and Rsch. 6 Hen. IV. n" 8.
* Carte's Gascon R«11s, ii. 124.
454 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
EoDg's last expedition. Until that expedition he never heard of
any right of Sir Robert Grosvenor to the said arms, nor of a
challenge being made by him to them.
Sib Gerabd SIR GERARD BRAYBROKE, thb Father. The family
Bhaybboks. ... •
of Braybroke was of great antiquity in the counties of Bedford
and Buckingham. Sir Gerard Braybroke was descended frcun Ro-
bert de Braybroke, Chancellor to King John,^ and was the son of
Sir Gerard Braybroke, who died in 1359,^ leaving by Isabella his
wife,^ besides the Deponent, a younger son, Robert, who became
Bishop of London in 1381, and died in 1404.
Sir Gerard was bom about 1332, and first served in the
expedition into Gascony in 1355, and was in the army with which
Edward the Third invaded France in 1359. In 1363 he was re-
tained to serve in Acquitaine, with two esquires and two arcrhers ;^
and having accompanied the Black Prince to Bordeaux, obtained
letters of protection in 1366.^ Braybroke again served under
the Prince of Wales at the battle of Najara in April 1367 ; and
in 1369, being then in France, received letters of protection, as
well as of general attorney.^ He was appointed a Commissioner
to array men-at-arms and archers, for the defence of the realm, in
Bedfordshire, on the 2nd January 1376,^ and represented that
county in Parliament in the following year.^
The next notice which has been found of Sir Gerard Braybroke
is, that on the 27th May 1386 Lord Scrope proposed him as one of
his commissioners for the examination of witnesses in his contro-
versy with Sir Robert Grosvenor,^ and in October ensuing he was
examined at Westminster. He diecj in 1402 or 1403,*° aged about
seventy, and was twice married; but by his first wife, Margaret, who
is said to have been the widow of Sir John Longville," it appears
that he had no children. His second wife was Isabella, widow of
John Baron of WodhuU, and by her, who died in 1392 or 1393, *«
» Harleian MS. 807, f. 79 b. » Esch. 33 Edw. III. n<> 31.
' She was living in the 28th £dw. III. Ancient Charters in the British
Museum, 49 B 48. * Cottonian MS. Julius, C iv. f. 296.
^ Carte's Cascon Rolls, i. 155. ^ Ibid. ii. 100.
' Foedera, N. E. vol. ii. p. 1046. • Lansdowne MS. 229, f. 28.
• Scrope Roll, p. 41. " Esch. 4 Hen. IV. n" 21. » Harleian MS. 807, f. 80.
1* Esch. 16 Ric. II. second numbers, n^ 158. This inquisition is wholly
illegible. See Baker's History of Northamptonshire, p. 712.
SIR RICHARD SCHOPE. 466
he hod issue two sons, Sir Gerard his heir, who was upwards of ^m
thirty at his father's death, and Sir Reginald Braybroke, who was
living in the 6th Ric. 11.' and married Joan de la Pole Baroness
Cobhani, whose sole daughter and heiress, Joan, conveyed the
Barony of Cobham to Sir Thomas Broke. Sir Gerard Braybroke,
the Deponent's eldest son, was a Commissioner of Array in Essex
in July 1405, '^ and married Eleanor, daughter, and eventually sole
' Rot. a>us. 6 Ric II. d. in. 24.
• Fteden, iv. p' l, p. 84. Two deeds in the British Museum, of which (he
following are abstracts, throw some light on the Braybroke pedigree :
" Robert Bishop of Londou [brother of the Deponent], Gerard Braybroke,
Knighl, the younger [the Deponent's son], William Themyng, John Ilervy, and
John Bonn, lo all to whom, Su:. greeting. Whereas Gerard Braybroke, Knight,
the elder, and Isabella his wife.hold for their live» ihe castle and manors of Asaheby
and Chadesion iu the couniy of Northampton ; which, if the said Gerard and Isabel
die widiin len years after the date hereof, are to remain to their executors until
the expiration of the said term of ten years, and after the expiration thereof
ought to revert to the said Robert, William, John, and John: The aforesaid
Robert, William, John, and John, grant that the aforesaid castle and manors shall,
after the deatli of tlie said Gerard and Isabel, and aA«r the expiration of the said
term of teu years, remain to Reginald Braybroke, Knight, and Joan hi* wife, and
tile heirs male of their bodies, under condition that if John, son and heir of Robert
deHemenale, Knight,die without heir of liis body, then the said estate of remainder
in the heirs mole of the said Reginald and Joan shall wholly cease, and that then
the said Reginald and Joan shatl have only a life-interest in the said castle and
manors. And if the aforesaid Reginald and Joan die without heii male of their
bodies, or the aforesaid John, the son and heir of Robert de Hemenale, die without
heir of his body, that then after the decease of the said Reginald and Joan, and
after the determination of the estate of their heirs male, the aforesaid castle and
manors shall remain to the heirs male of the body of the aforesaid Gerard Bray-
broke, Knighl, the elder. And if he die without heir male of his budy, then the
said castle and manors to remain to the heirs male of the body of the said Regi-
nald, with remainder over to the right heirs of Sir Gerard Braybroke the elder.
Dated at Assheby, the a4di May, auno IS Ric. II. 1392." Sealed with a shield,
containing seven mascles conjoined, 3, 3, and I, surmounted by a file of three
points; impaling a fcss dancette between six cross crosslets. Legend — "S. Ge-
RAani DE Bnit BROKE." Harleian Charter, 47 B II. Upon the impalement with
the arms of Braybroke on tliis seat, some remarks arise. That coat was certainly
nui the anns of St. Atnitnd, and if tlie seal was engraved for Sir Gerard, the sun of
thv Deponent, it raises a strong presumption that £leanor St. Amand was his
iKond wife. If, however, tlie seal, though used by the son, originally belonged to
his lather, tlie inference is justified that the Deponent's first wife was the daughter,
instead of the aidaio, of Sir John Longville, because a kuiglit of that name, of the
^
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456
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Gerard
Braybroke.
heiress, of Almaric Lord St. Amand : their issue failed on the
death of Richard Beauchamp Lord St. Amand in 1508.
Sir Gerard de Braybroke the father, of the age of fifty-four,
armed since, and at the time when the Prince first passed into
Gascony, deposed that the arms Azure, a bend Or, belonged to
Sir Richard Scrope by inheritance, as he had heard from ancient
knights and old men, then deceased. He saw Sir William Scrope
so armed with a label Ermine in company of the Prince before
Paris, and in Gascony in the expedition of the late King, and at
the battle of Spain with the Prince, without challenge or contra-
diction. He never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of his
ancestors, until this controversy in the last expedition in Scotland.
The arms of Sir Gerard Braybroke were. Argent, seven
lozenges Gules.^
■■ I
Hugh Lord
BurneLl.
HUGH SECOND LORD BURNELL. Though the family
of Bumell was of great antiquity in the county of Salop, it did
not attain the honours of the peerage until the 5th Edw. II. when
Edward Bumell was summoned to Parliament, but the dignity
became extinct on his decease without issue, in 1315.' Maud,
his sister and heiress, married to her second husband Sir John
Handlo,^ by whom, who died in 1346,^ she had two sons, namely,
Richard, who died vitli patris, and whose daughters became his
coheirs ;^ and Nicholas. The said Nicholas assumed the name of
county of Huntingdon, in the reign of Edward the Second, bore Gules, a fess dan-
cette between cross crosslets Argent. See Roll of Arms temp. Edw. II. 8vo. 1828.
By another deed (Harleian Chart. 47 B 14), dated 1st May, anno 5 Hen. IV.
1404, it appears that Sir Gerard Braybroke, jimior, Edmund Hampden, Esq.
John Boys, Esq. and Roger Albhghton, Clerk, had founded a chantry at the altar
of St. Mary in the Palace of the Bishop of London, contiguous to the nave of St.
Paul's Church, London, where divine service was to be performed for the soub of
Robert [Braybroke] Bishop of London, and of Nicholas Braybroke, late Canon of
St. Paul's Church.
1 Roll of Arms temp. Edw. II. Svo. 1828, where that coat is attributed to Sir
^ Gerard Braybroke of Buckinghamshire, and the seal attached to the Harleian
Charter 47 B 11. * Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 62. Esch. 9 Edw. II. n» 67.
' Vincent's MS. in the College of Arms marked B 2.
* Esch. 20 Edw. IH. n© 51.
* Richard de Handlo, by Isabel his wife, who remarried Sir Robert Hildesle
before 1346 (Esch. 20 Edw. III. n<* 51), and died in 1361 (Esch. 35 Edw. IIL
n^* 103), left issue three children ; 1. Edward, or Edmund Handlo ; 2. Elizabeth ;
I
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 457
Burnell, succeeded to the property of the family, and was aura- H
moned to Parliament as a Baron, from the 24th Edw. III. 1350,
until bis decease on the 19th January 1383.' He left issue Hugh
Burnell, his son and heir,' the Deponent, who was bom about
1347, being thirty-six at the time of his father's death.' He
served in the wars of France in 1360, when Edward the Third
appeared before Paris ; again under John of Gant in 1369, and in
1373, when that Prince conducted a large army from Calais
through France to Bordeaux. In 1383 he served under the Duke
of Lancaster in Scotland, and in August 1385 was in the army
with which Richard the Second invaded that kingdom. Having
succeeded his father in January 1383, he was summoned to Parlia-
ment in August following; and whilst attending Parliament in
October 1386, was examined as a witness on behalf of Sir Richard
Scrope, in which year he was appointed Governor of the Castle of
Bridgnorth.- Lord Burnell being one of the personages whom
the Lords Apjiellants in 1388 suspected of giving improper counsel
to the King, he was removed from his sovereign^a presence; but
on Richard's recovering his power he was not only restored to
favour, but obtained a grant of sixpence per diem for life, in
recompense of his losses and services," In September 1397 he,
with most of the other peers, swore to observe the statutes and
regulations then enacted by Parliament.' On the 29tb September
1399, he was one of the lords who were deputed by Parliament to
receive the resignation of the crown by the unfortunate Richard.'
Burnell became a zealous and able adherent of Henry the Fourth,
and took an active part in the Parliamentary proceedings of the
period.* In February 1400 he furnished a ship for the defence of
the realm at his own expense, properly manned with sailors, and
3. Margaret. Edmund Ilandlo was seven years old in I34G, and died without
isaue in 13S5 (Esch. 32 Edw. III. n" 36), leaving Alice his wife surviving, who
died in 1363, when Edward le Despenser wa-i found to be her cousin and heit
(Esch. 37 Edw. in. n" 14). Eliiaheth Haiidio was sixteen years of age, and the
wife of Sir Edmund de la Pole, in 135B, and her eldest sister, Margaret, who then
made proof of her age, married, first, Gilbert Chatelaine, of whom she was the
wife in 1358 {Esch. 33 Edw. Ill, n" 36), and secondly, John Appelby, lo whom
it appears she was married before 1361 CEach. 35 Edw. III. n" 109).
' Esch. 6 Ric. II. n" 30.
' Dugdale's Baronage, ii, 62, ' Rot. Pari. iii. 356.
' Rot Pari, iii, 416. ' Ibid, iu. 427. 459. 523. 543, S6T.
VOL. II. 3 N
458 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Hugh Lord armed with twenty meD-at-arms and ninety archers ;^ and in 1402
he was constituted Governor of the Castles of Montgomery, Dolvo-
reyn, and Kenles, in Wales, with power to receive all rebels there
into the King^s grace.^ He was a Commissioner in Shropshire
for levying an aid in September 1405,' became about that time
Keeper of the Privy Seal,^ and was appointed a member of the
King's Council in May 1407,^ at which time he was present in
Parliament at the settlement of the crown on Henry the Fourth
and his issue.^ In June following he lent the King 250 marks
towards paying the wages of the soldiers and artificers at Calais J
Lord Bumell was a Trier of Petitions in Parliament, and on a
committee to confer with the Commons in October 1407 ; was a
Trier of Petitions in November 1411, and again in May 1413.^
He was re-appointed a member of the King^s Council in May
1410,9 and in Parliament, on the 30th November 1411, the Com-
mons prayed the King to thank him and his colleagues for their
services, which his Majesty did most graciously.^^ Nothing is
recorded of him after May 1413 until his decease, which took
place when he was about seventy-three years of age, on the 27th
November 1420,^^ excepting that in 1416 he entered into an
agreement for the marriage of his granddaughter Margery with
Edward, son of Sir Walter Hungerford, and that he made his
Will on the 2nd October 1417, by which he ordered his body to
be buried in the Abbey of Hales in Shropshire, near to Joyce his
wife, that a handsome tomb should be erected to his memory,
that his debts should be paid, and his servants rewarded ; and that
Joan de Beauchamp Lady of Abergavenny, should have the re-
mainder of his goods, which Lady in her Will, dated in 1434,
commemorates him as one of her benefactors.
The talents and services of Lord Bumell appear to have been
properly appreciated by Henry the Fourth, who, besides mani-
festing his esteem by appointing him Keeper of the Privy Seal,
conferred on him the Order of the Garter, upon the death of Sir
Thomas Rampston, in October 1406, a distinction to which few of
his contemporaries had higher pretensions. He was thrice mar-
* Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 1 77. * Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 62. ' Ibid. iv. p^ i. p . 88.
♦ Rot. Pari. iii. 585. » Ibid. iii. 572. • Ibid. iii. 574. 576. 582—588.
^ Foedera, W. p< i. p. 116. ' Rot. Pari. iii. 609, 610. 648. iv. 4.
» Rot Pari. iii. 632. *® Ibid. iii. 649. " Each. 8 Hen. V. n? U6.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 459
ried. The name of his first wife is unknown, but he must have •
married her before 1374, as his son, Edmund, was bom as early
as 1375. She died before 1385, as in that or the following year
Lord Burnell was the husband of Jocosa, the daughter and sole
lieiress of John de Botetourt, who died in viti'i patris, the son and
heir-apparent of John second Lord Botetourt.' Jocosa Lady Bur-
nell was then twenty-two years of age,' and died without issue in
1405 or 1406.« Lord Burnell took to his third wife, about 1408,
Joan, the widow of Walter Lord Fitz Walter,* who died in 1406,
and sister and heiress of Sir John, and daughter of John Lord
Devereux, K.G.; but by that lady, who died very soon afterwards,*
he does not appear to have had any children. Edmund Burnell,
the son of the Deponent by his first marriage, died in 1416,^ and
was buried in the church of the Friars Minors of London : by
Alice, daughter of Lord Strange,^ he left three daughters, who
were coheirs to their grandfather in 1420; namely, Jocosa, who
was then twenty-four, and married Thomas Erdington; Margery,
who was then fourteen, and the wife of Sir Edward Hungerford ;
and Katherine, who in 1420 was eleven years old, and afterwards
married Sir John Ratcliffe.' The issue of Jocosa Erdington
failed ; but among the descendants of her two sisters the barony
of Burnell is now in abeyance.
Sir Hugh Burnell, who is the Lord Burnell, aged forty, armed
twenty-six years, deposed that during all the time he had been
armed he saw Sir Richard Scrope, and branches of Ms family,
armed with the arms Azure, a bend Or, before Paris, at Balyng-
ham-hill, and in the expedition of the Lord of Lancaster in Caux,
when Sir Henry Scrope was Governor of Guisnes ; and in the great
expedition of the Lord of Lancaster through France into Gascony
he saw Sir William Scrope, son of the said Sir Richard, so armed
with difference ; and in Scotland twice he saw the said Sir Richard
so armed, and branches of his family with differences, namely, in
the expedition of the Lord of Lancaster, and in the last expedition
' Eseh. 9 Ric. II. n» 4. • Esch. 8 Hen. IV. n* 64.
• Rot. Claus. 9 Hen. IV. n. 2T. 10 Hen. IV. m. 23. Dugdale's Baronage,
i. 322. * Esch. 10 Hen. IV. a' 40.
• Esch. 4 Hen. V. n" 17, * Dugdale's Baronage, ii, 62.
' Esch. B Heo. V. a" 116. Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 62.
3n2
460
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Hugh Lohd
BUHNELL.
Philip Lord
Darcy.
of the King, the said Sir Richard having then his banner. He had
heard from gentlemen older than himself that these arms belonged
to the Scropes, and that Sir Richard had always used them on
coat and banner without interruption. He had never heard of Sir
Robert Orosvenor, or of his right to the said arms, or of his name,
until the last expedition in Scotland.
The arms of Lord Bumell were, Argent, a lion rampant Sable,
crowned Or, within a bordure Azure.^
PHILIP FOURTH LORD DARCY. This nobleman was the
second son of John second Baron Darcy, by Elizabeth, daugh-
ter and heiress of Nicholas Lord Meinill, by which marriage
the barony of Meinill was conveyed to the house of Darcy .^
Their eldest son, John Darcy, succeeded his father in the barony
of Darcy in March 1356, at which time he was only five years of
age,^ but dying in his minority, on the 26th August 1362, the
dignity devolved upon his brother and heir, Philip Darcy the De-
ponent, who was then eleven years old.^ He first served in the
field under John of Gant in France in the autumn of 1369, and
succeeded his mother, (who took to her second husband Peter Lord
Mauley,) in the barony of Meinill in 1368.» In 1373 he made
proof of his age;* and though he is not recorded to have been sum-
moned to Parliament until after the accession of Richard the Se-
cond, the first writ to him being tested 4th August 1377, yet, by
the appellation of " le Sire de Darcy ,^ he was one of the main-
pernors in Parliament of Lord Latimer in 1376.^ In the Parlia-
ment which met at Westminster in February 1379« he presented a
petition respecting some lands about which he was involved in a
controversy with the Prior of St. John.^ On the 30th June 1380
he was commanded to cause a proclamation to be made within the
county of Lincoln, that all tenants should render to their lords the
same services as they had done before the recent disturbances.^
Lord Darcy was in the army with which the Earl of Buckingham
> Vincent's MS. in the College of Arms, n^' 18, f. 102. In a Roll of Arms of
the reign of Edward the Second, (8vo. 1828,) Sir Edward Bumell the first baron,
who died in the 9th Edw. II. is said to hare borne the coat mentioned in the text,
but without the border.
' Dugdale's Baronage, i. 373. ' Esch. 42 Edw. III. n» 44.
* Rot. Pari, ii 326 b. * Ibid. iii. 78, 79. • Foedeia, iii. p' iii. p. 124.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 461
landed at Calais in July in that year, and marched into Brittany,' '
having in May preceding obtained letters of protection." He was
again in France in June 1383, on the 20th of which month he was
appointed a CommisBioner to receive the oaths of fealty and allegi-
ance of the Count of Flanders and the other Flemings, in acknow-
ledgment that Richard the Second and his heirs were the " true
Kings of France:"' about the same time he received new letters
of protection ;* and in consequence of being so employed he was
specially exempted from repairing to Ireland under the act of the
3rd Ric. 11., which provided that all persons who had lands in that
kingdom should appear in arms against the King's rebels.' Darcy
was in the expedition in Scotland under the Duke of Lancaster in
the spring of 1384, and in consideration of his expenses on the
occasion, the King allowed him to receive the revenues of his
lands in Ireland.* He was again in the army in Scotland under
the King in person in August 1385 ; on the 2-2nd February 1386
he was constituted Admiral of the King's Fleet, from the river
Thames northwards;'^ and having captured several of the enemy's
vessels during his command, they were, by order of the King,
delivered up to him.' Whilst attending Parliament at West-
minster in October following, he was examined as a witness for Sir
Richard Scrope, after which time all that is known of him is,
that he was in the expedition in Ireland in the 16th Ric. II.
1392-3;* that in 1397 he obtained the King's licence to go there
on his own business ;* and that he was one of the peers who, on
the 26th September in that year, swore to observe the statutes
then enacted in Parliament.'
Philip Lord Darcy died on the Z+th April 1398,^ aged about
forty-seven, leaving by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Orey
of Hoton, who died in the 13th Hen. IV.^ four sons; namely,
John fifth Baron Darcy,® Thomas, who was living in the 13th
Hen. IV.9 Philip, who was living in the 2nd Hen. IV.» and
William,' who died on the 26th June 1408.«^ John fifth Lord
I Dugdale's Baronage, i. 373. ' Carte's Gajcon Rolls, ii. 132.
' Fffideni, iii. p' iii. p. 154. ' Carte's Gascon KotU.
' Dugdale's Baronage, i. 373. " Carle's Gascon Rolls, ij. Ijl.
' RoU Pari. iii. 356. ' Esch. 22 Ric. II. n" IT.
' Pedigree of Darcy ia Dugdale's Baronage.
" Monumental inscription for William Darcy, on which were the arms of
Darcy and Melnill, quarterly.
462
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Philip Lobd
Darcy.
Darcy was succeeded in 1411 by his son, Philip, the sixth and
last Biaron, who, djring in his minority in 1418, left two daugh-
ters, his coheirs, namely, Elizabeth, who married Sir James
Strangwayes, and Margecy, who became the wife of Sir John
Conyers, among whose descendants the barony of Darcy is in
abeyance. From John, the brother of Philip sixth Lord Darcy,
descended the Thomas Lord Darcy who was so created by
Henry the Eighth.^
The Lord Darcy, aged thirty-two, armed first in the expe-
dition of the Lord of Lancaster in Caux, deposed to the right of
the Scropes to the arms Azure, a bend Or, founded on continual
usage in divers expeditions. He saw Sir Richard Scrope armed
in those arms, and others of his lineage so armed with differences,
in Caux, at Balyngham-hill, in the great expedition of the Lord
of Lancaster ; in Brittany, with the Lord of Gloucester ; in Scot-
land in two expeditions, the one with the Lord of Lancaster, the
other lately with the King. He had heard that the Scropes were
descended from great gentlemen and old ancestry : he had never
heard of any challenge or interruption being offered them by Sir
Robert Ghrosvenor, or his ancestors, of whom he never heard until
the last expedition in Scotland.
The arms of Lord Darcy were. Azure, cru^illy and three
dnquefoils Argent.*
Sir Matthew
Redmak.
SIR MATTHEW REDMAN. Though there does not
appear to be any regular pedigree of the family of Redman, nor
any Inquisitiones post Mortem in the public archives, by which
one could be compiled, ample evidence exists of its great respect-
ability and antiquity.^ It was seated at Upper Levins in West-
moreland, in the fourteenth century,' and the oldest roll of
arms that has yet been discovered, compiled in the reign of
Henry the Third, contains the name of Matthew Redman, who
bore Gules, three cushions Or.^
* Dugdale's Baronage, i. 373.
* Vincent's Baronage in the College of Arms, folio 168. These arms are im-
paled with those of Meinill in the chancel of Kirkeby Church in Nottinghamshire,
as a memorial of the father and mother of the Deponent. Thoroton's Histoiy of
Nottinghamshire, p. 266.
* See Bum's History of Westmoreland, i. 203, * Printed in 8vo. in 1829.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 463
The names of the parents of the Deponent are unknown, but |'" m«t
it is probable that he was a son of the &ir Matthew Redman
who in 1330 was appointed Receiver and Keeper of the King's
stores at Carlisle.' He was born about 1330, and at the age of
sevenleen began his military career, in which he attained no com-
mon fame. Redman says that he served in the wars of France,
Spain, and Scotland, but he does not particularise on what occa-
sions. He appears to have represented the county of Westmore-
land in Parliament in 1357 ;* and in June 1373 he witnessed the
execution of the treaty which was then concluded with Portugal.*
It was found by the inquisition taken on the death of Joan, the wife
of Sir John Coupeland, in 1375, that Sir Matthew Redman held
of her the manors of Levins and Lupton.* His importance in-
creased after the accession of Richard the Second, in proportion as
his merits became more conspicuous. In the 3rd Ric. II. 1379-80
he was a Warden of the Western Marches in Westmoreland and
Cumberland, and a Commissioner of Array for the defence there-
of ;* and on the 8lh March 1380 became one of the pledges of
Thomas Catreton, who had been appealed of treason by Sir John
Annesley.'* About the same time he was constituted Keeper of
Roxburgh Castle, and on the 6th March 1381 he obtained a grant
of the profit and herbage of Makeswell, with the revenues thereto
pertaining, namely, the Castleward, and Town and Toll of Rokes-
burgh, in part payment of his wages,' Sir Matthew Redman
served in the crusade of the Bishop of Norwich in Flanders in
1383, and continued there until the surrender of Bourbourg to
the French i* but he does not seem to have been involved in the
charges of miKconduct brought against Sir Thomas Tryvet, and
others of his companions, which were in that expedition. In the
following year he was a Commissioner to inquire into certain inju-
ries done to the walls, towers, and houses of Berwick, the Castle
of Roxburgh, and the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, respecting
the abstraction of artillery from those places, and into the neglect
' Hot. Orig. ii. 165.
' See Bura'a Hiitory of Westmoreland, i. 203.
' Fa;dera, iv. p' iii, p. 10,1 1.
' Each. 49 Edw. III. n" 39. ' Rot Scoc 3 Ric. II. m. 4.
• Fttdera, iii, p' iii. p. 96, ' Rot. Scoc. 4 Eic. II. m. 3.
* Froissart par Buchon, viii. 421. 468.
464 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sib Matthew of various persoDs who wcTc bound to have repaired the fortifica-
tions.^ When Richard the Second invaded Scotland in August
1385, Redman was Captain of Berwick, and he is stated to have
joyfully received the King there.^ He was in that year ordered
to review the retinue of Lord Percy, Warden of Berwick,' and
shortly afterwards was a Commissioner to treat for a truce with
the Scotch.^ In October 1386 he was examined at Westminster
as a witness for Sir Richard Scrope, and was a Commissioner of
Array for Northumberland in 1388.^
The incident in Redman's career for which he is principally
commemorated, occurred immediately after the battle of Otter-
bourne, to which circumstance Froissart has devoted a chapter.
He was then Captain of Berwick, and after fighting valiantly on
that unfortunate day, and seeing that the defeat of the English was
conclusive, he mounted his horse and fled, but was closely pursued
for three leagues by Sir James Lindsay, a Scottish knight. On
the Scot's calling on him to turn, saying that there was no other
* person with him, and that he was Sir James Lindsay, Redman
stopped and prepared to defend himself. They fought for some
time, and during a temporary cessation of the combat, Liindsay
asked who he was, and being told his name, exclaimed, ** Then I
" will conquer you, or you shall me,^ — when the contest recom-
menced, both being on horseback, the one armed only with his
sword, and the other with his axe; but Redman accidentally
dropping his sword, he was compelled to yield, exclaiming, *^ Lind-
" say, you will prove a good companion.*" — " By St. George you
" say truly ,^ replied the generous Scot ; " and to begin, though
" you are my prisoner, what do you wish me to do ?^ — " I desire
" you to permit me to return to Newcastle,^** said Redman, '* and
'^ by Michaelmas-day I will be at Dunbar or Edinburgh, or at any
" other port in Scotland you choose.'' — " I am content,^ rejoined
Lindsay, " be at Edinburgh by the day you have named.'**
They then separated ; but the Scot missing his road in the dark,
and during a thick fog, fell into the hands of the Bishop of Dur-
ham, who was on his way to Newcastle from the field of Otter-
1 Rot. Scoc. 8 Ric II. m. 7.
' Froissart par Buchon, ix. 142. ' Rot Scoc. 9 Ric IF. m. 8.
* Rot. Scoc. 9 Ric. II. m. 3. and 10 Ric. II. m. 1.
» Ibid. 12 Ric. II. m. 6.
bourne, where he arrived too late to afford Hotspur any assistance. Sir Mat
The Prelate having made Lindsay prisoner, conveyed him to New-
castle, where he found Redman. " By my faith," said the latter,
on seeing the Scottish knight, " I little expected to have met my
" master Sir James Lindsay here already !" '
After this event nothing has been found relating to Sir Mat-
thew Redman. He appears to have married before 1359, a lady
whose baptismal name was Margaret,'^ and to have been the father
of the Sir Richard Redman of Redman and Levins in Westmore-
land who, in 1406, at the request of the Commons, was appointed
an auditor of the accounts of Sir Thomas Lord Fumival and Sir
John Pelham, then recently discharged from the office of Trea-
surers for the Wars,' and who was, it is presumed, one of the
heroes of Agincourt.* He married Elizabeth, daughter and co-
heiress of Sir William Aldeburgh of Harwood in Yorkshire, in
the church of which parish are various tombs and effigies of
the Redman family.
Sir Matthew Redman, aged fifty-six, armed thirty-nine years,
deposed that until the commencement of the controversy in the
last expedition in Scotland, between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir
Robert Grosvenor, he never heard otherwise than that the
Azure, a bend Or, were the arms of Scrope, for he had been
armed thirty-nine years in France in the old wars, throughout
Scotland, and in Spain, and never saw any other Englishman bear
the arms Azure, a bend Or, excepting of the name of Scrope, who
had borne them with differences, as branches ought to use them,
during all his time. According to tradition from valiant and
noble knights and esquires of all the north country, then deceased,
and from his ancestors, they had a right to these arms by descent.
He never heard of any interruption or challenge by Sir Robert
Grosvenor, or by his ancestors, or by any one in his name ; and
said that the first lime he heard speak of the said Sir Robert was
when some one observed that he was to marry the Lady of Pul-
ford ; but he never heard of any challenge touching arms by the
said Sir Robert, or by any one in his name.
' FroLSsart pai Buchon, xi. 376. 410 — 113. A vay difierent version of this
affiiir, which ia related with great minuteoess by Froissart, is given in Lord Ber-
ners' translation. • Rot. Orig. ii. 256. ' Rot Pari. ili. 5TT b.
* History of ihe Battle of Agincourt, second edition, Appendix, page 61.
TOL. a. 3 0
466 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
The arms of Sir Matthew Redman were, Gules, three cushions
Ermine, buttons and tassels Or.^
^ Peter de SIR PETER DE BOKETON. Nothing is known of the
ancestors of this individual,' whose talents appear to have been
superior to those of most of his contemporaries. It is evident thiEtt
he was a native of the North of England, and was bom about 1350,
but it is not dear to what event he alludes as ^^ the great day of the
March on the Scottish Marches,^ when, he says, he first served in
the field. Boketon was in the army under the Duke of Lancaster
which ravaged the Pais de Caux in 1369 ; and in the expedition
with which the Earl of Buckingham, afterwards Duke of Glou-
cester, landed at Calais in July 1379- In 1383 he was in the
army under that Prince in Scotland, and in October 1386 was
examined at Westminster as a witness for Sir Richard Scrope.
On the 4th May 1390 he received letters of protection, being then
abroad in the King^s service ;' and in March 1397 he seems to have
been Escheator of the county of York.^ He was an attorney of
Henry Duke of Hereford in October 1398 ;* and on the Ist October
1401 was one of the ^* custodes^ of Thomas of Lancaster, to pro-
secute and defend suits in that Princess name in all courts, who
was then a minor, going to Ireland as the King^s Lieutenant.^
About that time Boketon filled the office of Chirographer of the
King's Bench, and in 1402 the King confirmed the situation to
him for life, unless he was otherwise rewarded to the annual value
of that office, with permission to execute its duties by a sufficient
deputy.^ Sir Peter Boketon was appointed a Commissioner of
Array against the Scots in July 1410 ;^ and on the 3rd November
1 In a Roll of Arms of the reign of Edward the Second, (8vo. 1828,) but
added in a somewhat later hand. Sir Matthew Redman of Cumberland is said to
have borne Guies, three cushions Ermine.
* It appears from the Harleian MS. 805, f. 94, that a family of the name of
Bucton was seated at Bucton in Yorkshire in the reign of Henry the Second. On
the death of Thomas de Boltesham in the 33rd Edw. I. it was found that Thomas
de Buckton was his heir, and then twelve years old, namely, son of Thomas de
Buckton, son of Alicia daughter of the said Thomas de Boltesham. Esch. 33
Edw. I. no 53. and 5 Edw. II. n« 55.
» Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 161. * Foedera, iii. p* iv. p. 127.
* Foedera, iii. p* iv. p. 148. * Foedera, iv. p' i. p. 16.
^ Rot. Pari. iii. 496. • Foedera, iv. p* i. p. 174.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
467
1411, being then Mayor of Bordeaux, he was ordered, with two Sib Pi"
other persons, to negociate a treaty with the King of Castile and
Leon.' He held the important office of Mayor of Bordeaux for
several years, and the last notice of him which has been found is,
that he was re-appointed to it on the 19th August 1412.' As he
was then upwards of sixty, he probably died soon afterwards, but
no inquisition on his decease is referred to in the printed Calendar-
Sir Peter de Boketon, aged thirty-six, armed first at the great
day of the March on the Scottish Marches, deposed that the arms
Azure, a bend Or, belonged to Sir Richard Scrope by right of
inheritance, as he had heard from old men in his country. He
saw Sir Henry Scrope armed with these arms and a white label,
the Isle of Caux, and with his banner, and Sir Stephen Scrope
in the expedition of the Lord of Lancaster ; and Sir John Scrope
in the expedition of the Lord of Gloucester in France and Scot-
land, with diflFerence ; and their fathers before them were in pos-
session of the same arms. The Deponent added, that it was com-
monly reported in the north country that Sir Richard Scrope and
his ancestors had constantly used these arms, and that they were
of the time of the Conquest, and were descended from nobles and
great gentlemen. He had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor,
or of his ancestors, until the last expedition into Scotland.
SIR ROBERT GRENACRE. A family of this name was ^^^^^^
long seated in Lancashire, one branch of which possessed Worston,
and another held the manor of Read in that county, in the reign
of Edward the Third ;* but there is not sufficient evidence to affi-
' Feeden, W. pU. p. I99. ' Carte 'i Gascon Rolls, i. 195.
' Richard de Greaacre, who held Worston in llie 46lli Edw. III. was father ot
Laurence, whose son, Henry de Grenacre, was living in the 22Dd Ric. II. and had
a sou, Robert, who, by Elizabelh his wife, was father of Richard de Grenacre, who
married Alice, daughter of Robert de Meles, and left issue. WhitaJier's History of
Wballey, ed. 1818, p. 294. Contemporary with the first-mentioned Richard de
Grenacre of Worston, was Sir Richaid Grenacre of Read, and afterwards of Great
MerUy in Lancashire, who in the 37th Edw. III. manried Johanna, daughter and
heireas of John del Clogh : his youngest daughter and coheiress, Agnes de Greri-
acre, was the wife of William RadclifTe of Todmorton. Ibid. pp. 363. 291.
Isabella, the widow of Richard de Grenacre, son of Sir Richard Grenacre, mar-
ried to her second husband, John Dymock, and died in 1416, leavii^ her son,
John Grenacre, «L 2B, her heir. £$ch. 4 Hen. V. n* 15. The Macy of the
A
468 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Sir Robert Uate the Deponent, who appears, from the annulet in his arms, to
have been a cadet of his house. He was bom about 1335, and
first served in Oascony under Sir Thomas Coke, at, what he terms,
the battle of Lymelenge, an affair which does not seem to be
noticed by Froissart, and the precise time of which has not been
ascertained.^ Besides the account of his military life in his depo-
sition, whence it is manifest that he had seen much service, only
one fact has been discovered about Sir Robert Grenacre, and
which relates to an early period in his career. On the 12th July
1359, by the appellation of the King's ** beloved valet," and in
reward of his services, he was appointed Captain of the Castle of
Beaufort in Brittany for three years, with all profits and advan-
tages appertaining to the said office ; he rendering yearly a thou-
sand florins, and stipulating to provide the castle with men-at-
arms and archers, as well in peace as in war, as other captains of
castles were accustomed to do.^
Sir Robert Orenacre, aged fifty and upwards, armed first in
Gascony at the battle of Lymelenge, when Sir Thomas Coke was
Lieutenant, which battle was near Lysneau in Poitou, deposed
that he saw the Scropes bear the arms Azure, a bend Or, in all
places where he served, in France, Normandy, Brittany, Gascony,
Spain, and Scotland : he often saw either Sir William Scrope,
elder brother of Sir Richard, or Sir Henry so armed, and with his
banner, or Sir Richard, or one of the sons of Sir Henry, or the
conjecture of Brooke, Somerset Herald, in the sixth yolume of the Archeologia,
that Sir Robert Bembrough, who commanded the English at the celebrated
Combat de Trente in Brittany in 1350, was in fact. Sir Robert Grenacre, must
be sufficiently obvious, because no two names can be more unlike : that he
was not the Deponent, is proved by the latter being only a ''valet'' in 1359, nine
years after the combat.
* The aflair in question is apparently mentioned in a chronicle printed in
Leland's Collectanea, ii. 569: — ^Afler this tyme [1333] many gp-eate feates and
yomeys were in Gascoyne, by the space of about a 12 yeres after the departure of
Henry of Lancastre, that was Lieutenant there for the King of England, and afore
the coming of Prince Eduarde thither. As at the rescous of lishinyane (lissinian),
wher Thomas Cok, a knight of England, was Seneschal after the departure of Henry
of Lancastre, and being abrode with 500 glayves, mette sodenly with a 1500
glayves of Fraunce on horsebak, devidid in to thre batayles,and discomfitid them.''
Coke was appointed Seneschal of Acquitaine on the 22nd March 1347; was a
Banneret in February 1348; and was still Seneschal of Acquitaine in 1351.
Carte's Gascon Rolls, i. 118. 120. ' Rot. Franc. 33 Edw. III. p. ]. m. 12.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE. 44)9
sons of Sir Richard, or the brother of Sir Henry, so armed with J
differences, and honourably continue in posseaaion of the said
arras, in company of the late King, of the Prince, of the late Duke
of Lancaster, of the Earl of Northampton, and of divers other
lords. He never saw any other man bear those arms excepting of
the name of Scrope. He had heard that they were descended from
noble persons and great gentlemen. He knew of no challenge
given by Sir Robert Grosvenor, or by any of his ancestors, until
this controversy arose in Scotland.
The arms of Sir Robert Grenacre were, Sable, three covered
cups Argent ; in chief an annulet of the second.'
ROGER FIFTH LORD CLIFFORD. Among the many "
distinguished individuals which the illustrious House of Clifford
has produced, the Deponent 611s a conspicuous station. His
talents and services as a statesman and a soldier were exceeded by
those of few of his contemporaries, and caused him to be selected
to till many important public appointments. Robert third Lord
Clifford died in 1344,* leaving by Isabella, daughter of Maurice
Lord Berkeley,' who afterwards married Sir Thomas Musgrave,'
and died in 1362,* four sons; namely, Robert, the fourth Lord;
Roger, the fifth Lord ; Sir Thomas, and Sir Lewis Clifford, K.G.
of whom a memoir will be found in a former page. Robert the
fourth Baron died in his minority, without issue, before 1351,^
when his brother Roger, the Deponent, succeeded to the barony
of Clifford." He was bom, he says, at the time of the battle
of Berwick, which took place in July 1333,* and first served
in 134d, when the celebrated Jacob Anartfeld, or Vanartfeld, was
murdered in Flanders. In August 1350 he was present in the
sea fight with the Spaniards near Winchelsea, called the battle of
Espagnols sur Mere;" and in 1355 was in the expedition in Gas-
cony with his father-in-law, Thomas Earl of Warwick, when he
received letters of protection.' In 1356 he was employed in the
' Roll of Arms in the possession of liie Rev. John Newling.
■ Each. 14 Edw. III. n° SO. ' Dugdale's Baronage, i
' Each. 36 Edw. III. n" 52.
* He made proof of his age oo the 10th Au^st 1354.
* Froissarl par Buchon, Jii. p. 9.
^ Dugdale's Baronage, i. 340. Carte's Gmcod Rolls, i, 134.
470 DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Roger Loud defence of the Marches of Scotland;^ and in 1359 and 1360 was
again in the wars of France,^ letters of protection having in
consequence been granted to him, dated 18th September 1359.^
Lord Clifford was first summoned to Parliament in December
1367,' and in October 1363 was a Trier of Petitions in the Par-
liament then held at Westminster.^ In September 1367 he was a
Warden of the Western Marches of Scotland ;^ and on the 28th
July 1368 was directed to be in Ireland by the ensuing Easter,
properly armed, and with a sufficient retinue to reside on his
estates in that country, for the purpose of opposing the incursions
of the natives.^ In August 1369 he was a party to a truce which
was then concluded with Scotland ;^ and was again a Warden of
the Marches in July 1370.® On the 26th February 1372 he was
commanded to hasten forthwith, with all his family and retinue, to
his lands near the Marches to resist the Scots.^ In May 1373
Clifford was appointed a Commissioner to enforce the observance of
the truce with Scotland ;^^ and in the Parliament which met at
Westminster in November in that year he was a Trier of Petitions
for Gascony, the Isles, and other places beyond the sea.^^ In Au-
gust 1374 he was a Commissioner to settle the dispute between
Henry Lord Percy and William Earl Douglas respecting their
rights in the forest of Judworth ;^ and in 1376, the inhabitants of
Carlisle having represented to Parliament that the walls and forti-
fications of that city were in want of repair, prayed that Liord
Clifford might be examined on the subject, he having recently
inspected them.^' In April in that year he was one of the main-
. , pernors in Parliament for Lord Latimer, " if,^ it is said, " it pleased
the King,^" and was selected as a Trier of Petitions,^* a situation
he also filled in the next Parliament in February 1377 ;^^ shortly
after which time he was constituted Sheriff of Cumberland and
Governor of Carlisle^^ and was re-appointed to these offices on the
accession of Richard the Second.^ He was then likewise one of
the Wardens of the East and West Marches of Scotland ; and
> Dugdale's Baronage, i. 340. * Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 72.
* Rot. Glaus, eod. ann. ^ Rot. Pari. ii. 275. ' Foedera, iii. p* ii. p. 138.
« Fcedera, iii. p» u. p. 147. ^ Ibid. iii. p' ii. p. 163. • Ibid. iii. p4i. p. 171.
» Ibid. iii. pt ii. p. 192. *' Ibid. iii. p' iii. p. 6.
" Rot. Pari. ii. 317. " Fcedera, iu. p' iii. p. 20. " Rot Pari. ii. 345.
" Rot. Pari. u. 326. " Ibid. p. 322. '• Ibid. p. 363.
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
471
again in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th Ric. II.' Clifford was R«oih Lomj
a Trier of Petitions in September 1377 ;* and in the ParHament
which met in November 1381 was on a committee to confer
with the Commons.* He was in the annj' with which Richard
invaded Scotland in August 138S, when he had the rank of a
Banneret,' and served in the rear guard with a retinue of sixty
men-at-arms and forty archers.* In October 1386 he was exa-
mined at Westminster as a witness for Sir Richard Scrope, at
which time he was attending Parliament. Froissart says that he
accompanied Richard Earl of Arundel into Brittany in May
1388;* and the last notice of his having taken any part in public
affairs is on the 25th October in that year, when he was com-
manded to survey the Marches towards Scotland, and to adopt
measures for the defence of the same in case of an invasion by the
Scots,'' Lord Clifford's active career terminated on the 13th July
1389,' in the fifty-sixth year of his age. By Maud de Beauchamp,
daughter of Thomas Earl of Warwick,^ he left issue, Thomas, his
son and heir, then twenty-six years old,^ and Sir William Clifford,
bis second son, who married Ann, daughter and coheiress of
Thomas Lord Bardolf,'" and died without issue in 1419:" he had
also three daughters, Mary, the wife of Sir Philip Wentworth
of Wentworth in Yorkshire ;'" Margaret, who married Sir John
Melton ;"* and Katherine, the wife of Ralpli Lord Greyslock.'^
Lord Clifford must have left a Will, as permission was granted to
his executors to retain the profits of his lands for one year after
his decease." From Thomas sixth Lord Clifford the subsequent
Barons Clifford and Earls of Cumberland descended.
Lord Clifford, bom at the battle of Berwick, and armed at
the time of the death of Jacob Vanartfeld, deposed, that according
to general report throughout the North lh« arms Azure, a bend
■ Diigdale's BaroQage, i. 340. * Rot. Pail. iii. p. 4. ' Ibid. p. 100.
' Archffiologia, vol. xxii. ' Froissart par Buchon, xi. 256.
' RoL Scoc. vol. U. p. 96. ' Esch. 13 Ric. II. n' 14.
■ Will of Katherine Countess of Warwick her mother, in 1369, and of Thomas
Earl of Warwicli, her feOier, in the same year. Maud Lady Clifford was be-
queathed a memorial by her brother, lliomas Earl of Warwick, in April 1400, and
died in 4 Hen. IV. Each.eod. ann. n" 37. ' Esch. 13 Hie. II. n<» 14.
'° Dugdale's Barona^, i. 340, 341. " Esch. 6 Hen. V. n" 19.
" Vincent's MS. in (he College of Arns marked AA. f. 360, where a drawing
of her seal occurs. " Calend. Rot. Pat. p. 222, 14 Ric. U.
yi
472
DEPONENTS IN FAVOUR OF
Roger Lord
CLirroRO.
Or, belonged to Sir Richard Scrope, as he had heard from hift
ancestors and from loyal knights and esquires. During all his
time he had seen Sir Henry Scrope so armed with a difference,
and with his banner, and his sons, and cousins of Sir Richard,
with pennons, in the north country, and afterwards with banners.
He understood that they were of an ancient family since the time
of the Conquest. Until this dispute in Scotland the Deponent
had never heard mention of Sir Robert Orosvenor, or of his
ancestors.
The arms of Lord Clifford were, Checquy Or and Azure, a
fess Gules.
Sir Thomas
BfiAUCRAMP.
SIR THOMAS BEAUCHAMP. The remark which was
made respecting Edward Beauchamp in a former page,^ applies
with equal force to this Deponent, for it is impossible to identify
him as a member of either of the families of Beauchamp which
flourished in the fourteenth century. He was bom about 1321,
and served in the army for the first time in 1339, when Edward
the Third and his Consort passed their Christmas at Antwerp;
and on the 24th of the ensuing June he was in the sea fight near
Scluse. Beauchamp was present at the siege of Morlaix, early in
1343, and was subsequently employed in the wars of France. On
the 18th May 1358 he obtained letters of protection for two years,
being then about to remain in the garrison of the town of Brest in
Brittany.^ In August 1374 a Sir Thomas Beauchamp was ap-
pointed Captain of the Isles of Guernsey, Sark, and Alderney,*
but it is not certain that he was the Deponent, of whom all which
can be added is, that he appears to have been in the expedition in
Scotland in August 1385, and was examined as a witness for Sir
Richard Scrope at Westminster in October 1386.
Sir Thomas de Beauchamp, aged sixty-five, armed first at
Antwerp, when the King and the Queen were there, soon after
which was the battle of Lescluse, deposed that the arms Azure,
a bend Or, belonged to Sir Richard Scrope, for at the assault
of Morlaix he saw Sir William Scrope, elder brother of Sir
Richard, armed in the entire arms, who was there wounded,
under the banner of the Earl of Northampton ; and also he saw
» Page 188. « Fcedera, iii. p» i. p. 165. » Carte's Gascon Rolls, ii. 112,
SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
473
Sir Henry Scrope so armed with a white label, and with his Sm Tho>
banner, and others of his lineage in the same arms with differ-
ences; but he never saw any other person excepting of the name
of Scrope using these arms, and never heard to the contrary until
the last expedition under the King in Scotland, until which time
he had never heard of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or of any of his
ancestors. In many places where he served, in France and else-
where in divers journeys, the Deponent saw the said arms borne
by the Scropes.
SIR RICHARD TEMPEST. It is presumed that this Sik Rk«.
Deponent was the son of Richard Tempest,' who was Sheriff of
Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1350,= by Joan, daughter and heiress of
Sir Thomas de Hertford of Stainton.' He was born about 1356,
and first served in the field in his fifteenth year. In September
1377 he was in the expedition which lande<] at Bordeaux for the
relief of Mortaine in Gascony, under Lord Neville ; and in 1383
and 1385 he served in the army which invaJed Scotland. Tem-
pest was examined at Westminster as a witness for Sir Richard
Scrope in October 1386, shortly after which time he and his esquire
were engaged in a " fait d'armes" with a Scottish kmght and his
esquire; and on the 6th June 1387 they obtMned permission to meet
and decide the challenge, which appears to have emanated from
the Scots.' Sir Richard Tempest was Lieutenant of the castle
and town of Carb'sle, as well as of the West Marches towards
Scotland, under the Earl of Huntingdon, in 1396 ; and in the 5th
Hen. IV. llie Commons prayed that he might be repaid the sum of
500 marks for the wages of his soldiers, which the Earl was in
arrears to him, and which he bad paid out of his own purse, to
the great injury of his estate.* He was certainly living in the
8th Hen. IV. ;> and was probably the Sir Richard Tempest who
furnished six men-at-arms for Henry the Fifth's expedition in
' Suitees' Histoiy of Diufaom, vol. i. p. 339. According to a pedigree in the
Harleian MS. 6138, f. 18, Sir John Tempest, Lord of Bracewell and Waldington,
CO. York, in the reign of Edward the Tbird, had by Margaret, daughter of Sir
Robert Holland, a son, Sir Richard Tempest, who was a knight in t!ie 6th Ric. II.
and who may have been the Deponent. He left issue, three sods ; 1. Roger, 2.
Peler,and3. John. * Rot.Ong.ii.212. See also F<edera, iii. p' ii. 137. 139.
' Fffldera, iii. p' iv. p. 13. * Rol. Pail. iii. 543 h. ' Surtee»' Dutbam, i. 329.
m
474
DEPONENTS FOR SIR RICHARD SCROPE.
France ia April 1415, in which he appears to have served,^ who
was a Commissioner of Array in the West Riding of Yorkshire in
July 1410,« and in April 1418,' and who, in April 1421, was a
Commissioner to collect a loan there for the King's service in the
wars of France.* By Isabel, daughter and heiress of John le Gras
of Studley," the Deponent had Sir William Tempest of Studley,
who was found heir to his mother in 1421, at which time he was
thirty years of age.^ He had two sons ; 1. William Tempest of
Studley, who left two daughters, his coheirs, namely, Isabel, the
wife of Richard Norton, of Norton Conyers in Yorkshire, Esq.
and Dionysia, who married William Mallory, Esq. ;' and 2.
Rowland Tempest, ancestor of the Tempests of Holmside.'^
Sir Richard Tempest, aged thirty, armed fifteen years, deposed
that he was in Gascony in company of Lord Neville, at the relief
of Mortaine, and there saw Sir William Scrape armed in the
arms of his father, with a label ; and also saw Sir Richard armed
twice in Scotland, once in company of the Lord of Lancaster, and
secondly, in the King's last expedition, on both of which occasions
Sir Richard was armed in the entire arms, and with his bann^ ;
and others of his lineage were armed in the same arms with differ-
ences. He had heard from old knights and esquires of the North
that they had always been reputed to be the arms of Scrope.
Until this controversy arose in Scotland he had never heard of
any challenge for the said arms ; or of Sir Robert Grosvenor, or
of any of his ancestors.
The arms of Sir Richard Tempest were. Argent, a bend
engrailed between six martlets Sable.*
' History of the Batde of A^court, Second EdiuoD, p. 385.
• Fodera, iv. p* i. p. 174. ' Ibid, p' iii. p. 45. ' Ibid, p' iv, p. 19.
* Surtees' Uistoiy orDurha.111, i. 339.
I
. INDEX
TO THE
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF SCROPE,
IN THE SECOND VOLUME.
SCROPE OF BOLTON.
Origin of the Family, p. 2.
Pedigree of, p. 58.
Proofs of Pedigree of, p. 65 et seq.
Arms of, p. 81 et seq.
Monumental Inscriptions, p. 79.
Portraits in Bolton Hall, p. 92.
ScROPE, Alice, conveyance by, to her
uncle Simon, temp. Joh. p. 65.
Anne, widow of John fourth
Lord, extract from her Will, p. 77.
Henry le, temp. Hen. III.
notice of, p. 7.
Henry le, temp. Edw. III.
notice of, p. 11. Indenture be-
tween him and the Abbot of St.
Agatha, p. 67. Inquisition post
Mortem, p. 68.
Henry, fourth Lord, extract
from his Inquisition post Mortem,
p. 74.
Henry Lord, temp. Hen. VIII.
correspondence between Lady Parre
and Thomas Lord Dacre of Gilles^
laud, respecting his marriage with
Katherine Parre, p. 85 et seq.
Hugh, temp. Steph. notice
of, p. 5.
John, fifth Lord, writ of Edw.
IV. forbidding him to bear the arms
of the Isle of Man, 15 Edw. IV.
p. 85. Abstract of his Will, p. 76.
Maud, conveyance by, to her
uncle Simon, temp. Joh. p. 65.
Maud, temp. Hen. IV. no-
tice of, p. 57.
Margaret, wife of Richard
third Lord, notice of, p. 72.
ScROPE, Margaret, widow of Roger se-
cond Lord, petition of, to Parlia-
ment, anno 9 Hen. V. p. 71.
Osbem, son of Richard, temp.
Will. Conq. notice of, p. 3, n.
Philip le, temp. Ric. I. no-
tice of, p. 6.
Richard, temp. Edw. Conf.
and Will. Conq. notice of, p. 3.
Richard le, temp. Steph. no-
tice of, p. 5.
Richard de, temp. Joh. no-
tice of, p. 7, n.
Richard le, temp. Edw. I.
notice of, p. 9.
Richard first Lord, the Ap-
pellant against Grosvenor, temp.
Ric. II. memoir of, p. 17. Grant
of the manor of Langley to Richard
his son, p. 69. Indenture made by,
for building Bolton Castle, p. 23.
Will of, p. 30. Extract from his
Inquisition post Mortem, p. 70.
Richard third Lord, notice of,
p. 57. Abstract of his Will, anno
8 Hen. V. p. 75. Extract from his
Inquisition post Mortem, p. 70.
Robert le, temp. Hen. II.
notice of, p. 5, 6, n.
Robert de, temp. Hen. III.
notice of, p. 9, n. ; p. 10, n.
Roger second Lord, temp.
Hen. IV. memoir of, p. 53. Will
of, p. 54. Extract from his Inqui-
tion post Mortem, p. 70.
Simon le, temp. Will. Conq.
p. 5.
3p2
4«
ScROPE, SiiDOD le, of Flotmaaby, temp.
Hen. III. notice of, p. 7. Coarey^
mice of Undg to, by Alice and Maud
his nieces, p. 65, Conveyaoce of
lands by, to Heuy le Scnpe his
son, p. 66.
Stephen le, Clerk, temp. Edw.
II. notice of, p. 11.
-• ' Stephen le, temp. Edw. III.
notice of, p. 15.
Sir Stephen, temp. Hen. IV,
raemoii of, p. 45. Will of, p,50.
Thomas, Abbot of Oerrauix,
anno 1366, notice of, p, 8, n.
Thomas, temp. Hen, VI. no-
tice of, p. 57.
INDEX TO THE HISTORY
ScaoPE, Tlomai, mmamed Bradley,
Bishop of Dromote, memoir of,
p. 72.
• ' Walter le, temp. Stepb. no-
tices of, p. 5. 8, note.
WilUam, seizure of lands of,
in CO. Line. temp. Joh. p. 66.
William le, temp. Edw. I.
memoir of, p. 9.
SirWUIiam le, tetnp. Edw, I.
memoir of, p. 10.
William, temp. Edw. III.
memoir of, p. 15. His Inquisition
post Mortem, p. 69.
William, Earl of Wiltshire
temp. Ric. II. memiMr of, p. 39.
SCROPE OF MASHAM.
Pedigree of, p. 1 34 et seq.
Froo&ofPedi$ree, p. l3Bet seq.
Arms, p. 154 et seq.
Scrope, Beatrix, temp. Edw. III.
notice of, p. 111.
Constance, temp. Edw. Ill,
notice of, p. 111.
■ ' Eliiabeth, widow of lliomBS
siKih Lord, abstract of her Will,
p. 153,
Sir Geoffrey, temp. Edw,!!!.
memoir of, p. 9S.
Sir Geoffrey, temp. Edw. lU.
memoir of, p, lao.
Geoffrey, Clerk, temp. Ric.
II. memoir of, p. 110.
Geoffrey, Knight, temp. Hen.
V. memoir of, p. 133.
Henry (first Loid) temp. Ric.
!!. memoir of, p. 113. Grant of
annuity to, p. 117, n. Seal of, p.
119. Extract from his Inquisition
post Moitero, p. 138.
• Henry, temp. Edw. II!. me-
moir of, p. 126.
Henry (third Ixird), temp.
Hen. V. memoir of, p. 133. No-
tice respecting his marriage, p. 140.
Letter from !/)rd WiLlougbby of
Eresby, as to bis marriage with
Joan Dnchess of York, p. 140.
Giant of the manor of Anltoo to
bim and Joan his wife, p. 141.
List (Particles forfeited to the Crttwn
by hira, p. 141. Exti^ts from his
Will, p. 142.
ScaopE, Joan, temp. Edw. III. no-
tice of, p. 129.
Jrfin (fourth I«rd), writ re-
storing to him the dower of Mar-
gery his mother, 2 Hen. VI. p. 149,
Grant to bim or laiuls forfeited hy
Heuiy third Lord, p. 149. Abstract
of an Inquisition respecting his
claim to lands, p. 150. Abstract of
his Inquisition post Mortem, p. 151.
Abstract of his Will, p. 15I ,
Sir John, temp. Hen. IV.
memoir of, p. 127. His Will.p.iag.
John, Esq, heir-apparent of
John fourth Lord, extract from his
Will, anno 1452, p. 150.
Isabella, temp. Ric. II. me-
moir of, p, 139.
OF THE FAMILY OF SCROPE.
477
ScROPEy Ivetta, temp. £dw. III. no-
tice of, p. 111.
Maud, temp. Hen. V. notice
of, p. 133.
Margaret, widow of Stephen
second Lord, extract from her In-
quisition post Mortem, 1 Hen. VI.
p. 148.
Philippa, wife of Henry third
Lord, temp. Hen. IV. notice of,
p. 139. Extract from her Inquisi-
tion post Mortem, p. 140.
Ralph (eighth Lord), abstract
of his Will, anno 1515, p. 154.
Richard, Archbishop of York,
temp. Ric. II., memoir of, p. 121.
Sir Stephen, temp. Edw.III.
memoir of, p. 108.
ScROPE, Stephen (second Lord), temp.
Hen. IV. memoir of, p. 130. Crest
of, p. 132. Extract from Inquisi-
tion post Mortem, p. 139.
Stephen, Archdeacon of Rich-
mond, temp. Hen. IV. memoir of,
p. 133. His Will, p. 147.
Sir Thomas, temp. Edw. II.
memoir of, p. 105.
Thomas (fifth Lord), abstract
of a charter, whereby he founded a
chantry, anno 36 Hen. VI. p. 152.
Sir William, temp. Edw. III.
memoir, of, p. 105.
William, Clerk, temp. Hen.
VI. notice of, p. 133.
William, Archdeacon of Dur-
ham, monumental inscription to,
anno 1453, p. 154.
INDEX
MEMOIRS OF DEPONENTS
IN THE SECOND VOLUME.
Adderbury, Sir Richard, p. 378.
Adderbury,SirRichaid,theson,p,a30.
Ask, Conan, p. 331.
Aton, Sir William, p. 347.
Aug Lee, Sir Walter, p. 390.
Baker, Richard, Esq. p. 243.
Baihe,JohD, Esq. p. m9.
Beauchamp, Edward, Esq. p. 1B8.
Beauchamp, Sir Thomas, p. 472.
Beaulieu, Richard, Esq. p. 441.
Bemers, Sir James, p. 391.
Beverley, Sir Richard, p. 1T6.
Biset, Williani, Esq. p. 334.
Blount, Sir Walter, p. 192.
Boketon, Sir Peler de, p. 466.
BoltoD, John, Esq. p. 310.
Bonville, William Lord, p. 357.
Bosevjie, Sir John, p. 295.
Bourchier, John Lord, p. 445.
Boynton, Sir Thomas, p. 309.
Boys, Sir Miles, p. 220.
Biadeley, Thomas, Esq. p. 221.
Braybroke, Sir Gerard, p. 454.
Brereton, Sir John, Chaplain, p. 332.
BreretoQ, William, p.268.
Brewes, Sir John, p. 208.
Briaa, Guy Lord, p. 245.
Brocas, Sir Beniard, p. 43 1 .
Browe, Sir Hugh, p. 386.
Bruyn, Sir Morris, p. 366.
Bugg, Geoffery", p. 303.
Bulmer, Sir Ralph, p. 216-
Bumell, Hugh Lord, p. 456.
Byland, the Abbol of, p. 275
Byngham, Sir Richard, p. 266.
Calverley, Hugh, p.226.
Casdle and Leon, John King of, Duke
of Lancaster, p. 163.
Cauusfield, Robert, Esq. p. 174.
Cetes, Sir James, p. ISO.
Chaucer, Geoffery, Esq. p. 404.
Chauncy, SirWilliaiQ, p. 304.
Cheney, Sir Ralph, p. 260.
Chetewynde, Williau, Esq. p. 188.
Chudlegh, Sir James, p. 244.
Chydioke, Sir John, p. 255.
Clanvowe, Sir John, p. 436.
Clavering, Sir Robert, p. 380.
Clifford, Sir Lewis, p. 427.
Clifford, Roger Lord, p. 469.
Clifton, Sir Gervais, p, 356.
Cloworth, John, Sub-Prior of Wartie,
p. 278.
Clynton, Sir Thomas, p. 314.
ConBtable,SirJohn,of Ha1sham,p.296.
Coiutable, Sir Robetl, p, 339.
Conyers, Sir Robert, p. 317.
Colyngham, Thomas, Ptior of the
Abbey of SL Mary of York, p. 344.
Coverham, the Abbot of, p. 276.
Cressewell, John, Esq. p. 328.
Crophyll, TTiomas, Esq. p. 203.
Dacre, William Loid, p. 412.
Dalyngri^e, Sir Edward, p. 370.
Danyel, Robert, Esq. p. 365.
Darcy, Philip Lord, p. 460.
Deincourt, Sir John, p. 177.
Derby, Henry Earl of, p. 165.
Devoushire, Edward Earl of, p. 235.
Driffield, Tiomas, Esq. p. 197.
F'
INDEX TO MEMOIRS OF DEPONENTS.
479
DuttoD, Sir Laurence, p. 265.
Erpynghara, Sir Thomas, p. 194.
Evre, Sir Ralph, p. 315.
Eynesford, Sir John, p. 367.
Eyrdale, Warine, Esq. p. 216.
Fereby, John, Subtreasurer of the Ca-
thedral of York, p. 347.
Ferrers, Sir Henry, p. 443.
Ferrers, Martin, Esq. p. 171.
Ferrers, Sir Ralph, p. 361.
Fitz Henry, Sir Thomas, p. 320.
Fitz Payne, Robert Lord, p. 259.
Fitz Ralph, Robert, Esq. p. 172.
Flamville, Sir William, p. 401.
Fychet, Sir Thomas, p. 205.
Gervaux, Abbot of, p. 273.
Gisborough, Abbot of, p. 277.
Godard, Sir John, p. 389.
Goldingham, Sir Alexander, p. 227.
Grenacre, Sir Robert, p. 467.
Grey, Sir Nicholas, p. 198.
Grymeston, Sir Gerard, p. 292.
Gybbethorpe, Sir John, p. 225.
Hales, Sir Stephen, p. 369.
Halle, William de la, Esq. p. 204.
Hamptone, Richard, p. 452.
Hastings, Sir Hugh, p. 168.
Hastings, Sir John, p. 169.
Hastings, Sir Ralph, p. 283.
Heselden, Thomas, Esq. p. 173.
Hesilrigge, William, Esq. p. 325.
Holand, Sir John, p. 182.
Holm, William de. Canon and Cel-
larer of Watton, p. 282.
Hotham, Sir John, p. 306.
Ipre, Sir Ralph, p. 171.
Irby, Sir William de. Official of Rich-
mond, p. 330.
Ivre. See Evre.
Jenee, Sir Thomas, p. 220.
Kylyngwyk, Sir Edmund, p. 315.
Lancaster. See Castile.
Lanercost, William, Prior of, p. 279.
Laton, Sir Robert, p. 300.
Ledes, Sir Thomas, p. 205.
Leycestre, John, Esq. p. 268.
Loudham, Sir John, the elder, p. 354.
Loudham, Sir John, the son, p. 175.
Lound, Sir Gerard, p. 297.
Lovel, John Lord, p. 450.
Lucy, Sir William, p. 261.
Lucy, Sir William, the younger, p. 217.
Lye, Sir William, p. 265.
Mallory, Sir W^illiam, p. 322.
Manfeld, Sir John de. Parson of the
Church of St. Maiy upon Rychille,
p. 346.
Marmion, Sir William, p. 355.
Mamy, Sir Robert, p. 385.
Marshall, Sir Thomas, p. 211.
Marton, tlie Prior of, p. 344.
Massy, Sir John, ofPodyngton, p. 264.
Massy, Sir John, of Tatton, p. 262.
Maulevercr, Sir John, p. 299.
Mauleverer, Sir William, p. 181.
Melton, Sir William, p. 301.
Merkyngfeld, Sir Thomas, p. 318.
Midylton, Sir Nicholas, p. 319.
Moigne, Simon, Esq. p. 187.
Moigne, Sir William, p. 372.
Monceaux, Amand, Esq. p. 335.
Morieux, Sir Thomas, p. 183.
Morley, Sir Robert, p. 202.
Mountboucher, Sir Bertram, p. 383.
Murrers, Sir William, p. 337.
Mynyot, John, Esq. p. 229.
Newburgh, the Prior of, p. 280.
Newland, John, Esq. p. 343.
Newson, Adam, p. 222.
Nevill, Sir Robert, p. 293.
Nevill, Sir William, p. 442.
Nevill, Sir WUliam, of Pykhall, p. 359.
Pecham, James, Esq. p. 435.
Percy, Sir Thomas, p. 167.
Peytevyn, Sir Thomas, p. 439.
Pierrepont, Sir Edmund, p. 358.
Pilkington, Robert, Esq. p. 207.
Plumpton, Sir Robert, p. 310.
Pole, Sir John, p. 269.
INDEX TO MEMOIRS OF DEPONENTS.
PojntDgs, Richard Lord, p. 166.
Pulhani, Stephen, Esq. p. 181.
Pf got. Sir Ralph, p. 314.
Queldrike, John, Canon and Sacris-
tan of the Prioiy of Bridlington,
p.aBl.
Quiiley, Roger, Cellarer of the Ab-
be; of Fountains, p. 345.
Redman, Sir Matthew, p. 4G2.
R^mpMon, Sir Thomas, p. 199.
Reresby, Sir Thomas, p. 307.
Retford, SirHenrf, p. 179.
Rilher, Joha, Esq. p. 351.
Rivaulx, the Abbot of, p. 373.
Roche, the Abbot of, p. 276.
Rokeby, Sir Thomas, p. 308.
Roos, John Lord, p. 423.
Rocs, Sir Robert, of Ingmanthorp,
p. 290.
Roos, Sir Thomas, of Kendal, p. 333.
Roos, Peter, Esq. p. 234.
Roucliffe, Sir David, p. 315.
Rouclifie, Sir Richard, p. 350.
Rouih, SirThomaa, p. 211.
Sabraham, Nicholas, Esq. p. 323.
St. Agatha, John, Abbot of,p.274.
Saintcler, Sir John, p. 1 77.
St. Legere, Sir Amald, p. 232.
St. Quintyn, Sir Geoffrey, p. 207.
St. Quintyn, Sir John, p. 382.
Sakevyle, Sir Thomas, p. 387.
Saliran, SirThomas, p. 233.
Saltmersh, Thomas, Esq. p. 341.
Salvayn, Sir Gerard, p. 340.
Savill, Sir John, p. 302.
Scales, Roger Lord, p. 219.
Scargyll, Sir John, p. 214.
Schakel, John, Esq. p. 433.
Selby, the Abbot of, p. 270.
Seton, SiiJohn,p.l87.
Spenser, William, Esq. p. 327.
Stapilton, Sir Rryan, p. 285.
Strauley,SirSampson, p. 357.
Sudbury, William, Esq. p. 218.
Sully, Sir John, p. 240.
Tailboys, Sir Walter, p. 402.
Talbot, Sir Gilbert, p. 397.
Tempest, Sir Richard, p. 473.
Thirlewalle, John, p. 425.
Trailly, Sir John, p. 223.
Tryret, Sir Thomas, p.413.
Unwick, Sir Walter, p. 169.
Vaas, Sir Gilbert, p. 398.
Vavasour, Sir William, p, 179-
Vemon, Sir Ralph, p. 266.
Waldegmve, Sir Richard, p. 374.
Walshe, Sir Thomas, p. 399.
Warde,SirJohn,p.312.
Waterton, Hugh, Esq. p. 190.
White, Sir John, p. 196.
Willon, Sir John, p. 231.
Wyndesore, Sir Miles, p. 213.
Wyngfield, Sir William, p. 396.
Wynselowe, Simon, Parson of, p. 329.
Yeversley, John de. Canon and Cel-
larer of the Priory of Bridlinglou,
p. 281.
Zouche, Sir Richard, p. 448.
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